ForumTitleContentMemberSexCountryDate/Time
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaBuying Cuban Fiance's plane ticket to US

If you buy the tickets for him from here and have them issued as e-tickets, won't he be able to go to the counter and have the ticket agents pull him up in their computer system? I've bought my mom her plane tickets that way to fly from Colombia to Denver and all she had to do was go to the ticket counter and hand over her ID.

Customer service from the airline you plan on using will be able to answer all those questions more accurately.


Depends on the airline. A coworker had major issues with his wife - she needed a flight from South Carolina back to Tampa, FL - had one booked, but didn't have the credit card so they wouldn't issue her the boarding pass. (EVEN THOUGH THE SAME LAST NAME APPEARED ON THE CARD.)

I would honestly try to find a way to wire money over there so he can buy the tickets. It's not a risk I'd want to run. Even if you have to do more than one wire transfer to get the money there - we live in FL so it's easy to send money to wherever, but there has to be some way whether it be online, etc.
athena_nyFemalePeru2007-04-12 20:33:00
Mexico, Latin & South Americaevalutation of foreign education credentials - PERU

I agree with artegal and ardilla, I met my wife when she was studying in Texas. All colleges and universities have their own resources they use to evaluate foreign work or education credentials and, to my knowledge, Most will not even accept 3rd party evaluations. The evaluations through 3rd party creditential evaluations are sufficient for employment purposes though.


I'm definitely contacting the college first, I was more interested in if diplomas from Peru are generally accepted as equivalent to one from any of the States. Seems it may be.
athena_nyFemalePeru2007-05-01 19:35:00
Mexico, Latin & South Americaevalutation of foreign education credentials - PERU

I wish I could help with this, but my husband and I are attempting to do almost the same thing. He has transcripts from his studies at the university that we need to have evaluated here in the states.

I don't know how (or if) it works... :huh:


From looking at his diploma, looks like everyone will 'translate' well but I want assurance. :crying: Haha, it's one thing after another.
athena_nyFemalePeru2007-04-30 16:16:00
Mexico, Latin & South Americaevalutation of foreign education credentials - PERU
We need to get Mirko's foreign education credentials (just his high school diploma) evaluated before he can enroll in college - has anyone had to do this and how does it usually pan out? He really doesn't want to have to get his GED, which I understand, but he needs to study so I'm trying to find out.

Thanks!
athena_nyFemalePeru2007-04-29 19:16:00
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaProbably moving to Miami..who's from there?

You're one of the few looking to move here, most people I know in South Florida are looking to leave.

But, I live here in South Florida and yes the cost of living is border line rediculous. Especially that salaries and wages have not moved inline with the cost of living.

Alot of places here are always looking for bilingual (english/spanish) employees. And in Miami / Hialeah it's the norm to hear mostly spanish spoken.

So if you can put up the the 5-6 months of heat, humidity, hurricanes, crazy drivers (miami just rated #1), high insurance and real estate taxes you are bound to find jobs here and one that you husband can work at.

Because after all that you have the beaches, the night life, and 70 degree days in the middle of January.


I live in the Tampa Bay area (St Pete right now but I REALLY HOPE that we can move to Clearwater in less than a year) and the cost of houses here are ridiculous. I make 27,000 a year which isn't a lot, but decent for where I'm coming from (college dropout at the moment, 20 years old) - and he doesn't make much either, we'd never be able to afford a house here. And if we could, we'd have to compromise in the neighborhood, etc. which I don't think is right. My parents (granted this was about 16 years ago) paid 150,000 for a decent house in a NICE neighborhood - wouldn't be over 250,000 now - right outside of Albany, NY. My husband wants to move to CT - I hate downstate NY, but CT is close enough to NYC to make him not have to feel like he's living in total isolation (grew up in Lima, Peru) and while the cost of living is what some people want to call "high" - I'd move there before I'd move to Miami, any day. (Even after all that, I wouldn't be able to convince my husband to move to Miami, he hates everyone assuming he's Cuban.)

As bad as traffic is in the Tampa Bay area, I can handle it - while I REFUSE to drive in Miami. It took me almost an hour to get in and out of the gas station.
athena_nyFemalePeru2007-05-21 17:35:00
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaENTREVISTA PARA AJUSTE DE ESTATUS EN JUNIO

for people who want to translate whats said.....http://www.google.com/language_tools...that way everyone can understand and reply.


ay esas cosas son tan malas. no traducen bien y solamente confunden a todos. ahhhh
athena_nyFemalePeru2007-06-04 07:48:00
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaENTREVISTA PARA AJUSTE DE ESTATUS EN JUNIO

okis. entonces cuando uno hace tramite de la condicional permanente a imigrante permanente (cr1 --> ir1), como se dice? :blink:

Daniel
:energetic:


eliminacion de condiciones. cuando llegas con el CR1, se convierte en residencia permanente, y despues el proceso es el mismo de un K1, B1/B2, F1, J1, et cetera. tu estatus no va a cambiar de CR1 a IR1, porque son VISAS que son nulo cuando entras porque despues de entrada no eres un poseedor de visa no mas - eres un poseedor de una tarjeta verde, o residencia permanente. por ejemplo, mi esposo ajusto de B2 a residencia permanente, y en dos an~os tiene que eliminar las condiciones, y su B2 visa no es valida no mas. Es el mismo con un CR1-cuando recibes su residencia no vas a cambiar a otra visa.

Edited by meow mix, 02 June 2007 - 09:03 AM.

athena_nyFemalePeru2007-06-02 09:02:00
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaENTREVISTA PARA AJUSTE DE ESTATUS EN JUNIO

HOLA A TODOS :blush:

ESPERO QUE SE ENCUENTREN DE LO MEJOR Y ESPERO QUE PODAMOS HACER ESTE FORO BIEN GRANDE

MUCHA SUERTE Y FELICIDADES A TODOS POR DAR ESTE GRAN PASO...

ME GUSTARIA QUE TODOS LOS QUE TENEMOS CITA PARA ENTREVISTA EN JUNIO NOS UNAMOS ACA, EN ESTOS MOMENTOS EMOCIONATES Y NERVISOS TAMBIEN... Y CONTEMOS NUESTRAS EXPERIENCIAS



MI CITA ES EL 27 DE JUNIO... QUE NERVIOS PERO QUE ALEGRIA !!! :thumbs:


Felicidades y buena suerte!!

P.S. I don't understand the "English only" rule AT ALL.



Whee :dance:

Personally, I'll answer Spanish posts all day long but I know some people are going to get all :angry: about it.


There is nothing wrong with it in the regionals. Speak Spanish all day long, for as long as you want! :D


oy vei. :D

pues ya estamos aca en los regionales. asi que adelante con el espanol al que guste.


ESTOY DE ACUERDO :D. ya estoy en el foro latino, dejame solo, yo digo. :D dios mio, yo respondria (espero que es correcto ayy) a entradas espanolas en los foros que no son regionales tambien.

creo que ya tendre que investigar los detalles de adjuste. que tipo de adjustes hacen uds? de k1 -> CR1? o de CR1 -> IR1?

de cualquier manera, buena suerte a todos. :yes:

Daniel
:energetic:


cuando ajustes de K1 o B2 o F1, et cetera, no recibes un CR1. CR1 es una visa inmigrante que se convierte a residencia permanente condicional (por dos an~os)cuando entras el pais. En estas partes, decimos 'eliminacion de condiciones' por el proceso de recibir la residencia permanente de diez an~os (lo siento no se hacer los acentos ni tildes en esta computadora).

Asi que cuando alguien decir su ajuste de estatus, significa el viaje de non-inmigrante (no se exactamente como se dice en espanol) a inmigrante, o de visa a la tarjeta verde! :)
athena_nyFemalePeru2007-06-01 17:42:00
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaENTREVISTA PARA AJUSTE DE ESTATUS EN JUNIO

HOLA A TODOS :blush:

ESPERO QUE SE ENCUENTREN DE LO MEJOR Y ESPERO QUE PODAMOS HACER ESTE FORO BIEN GRANDE

MUCHA SUERTE Y FELICIDADES A TODOS POR DAR ESTE GRAN PASO...

ME GUSTARIA QUE TODOS LOS QUE TENEMOS CITA PARA ENTREVISTA EN JUNIO NOS UNAMOS ACA, EN ESTOS MOMENTOS EMOCIONATES Y NERVISOS TAMBIEN... Y CONTEMOS NUESTRAS EXPERIENCIAS



MI CITA ES EL 27 DE JUNIO... QUE NERVIOS PERO QUE ALEGRIA !!! :thumbs:


Felicidades y buena suerte!!

P.S. I don't understand the "English only" rule AT ALL.



Whee :dance:

Personally, I'll answer Spanish posts all day long but I know some people are going to get all :angry: about it.
athena_nyFemalePeru2007-06-01 07:08:00
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaENTREVISTA PARA AJUSTE DE ESTATUS EN JUNIO

HOLA A TODOS :blush:

ESPERO QUE SE ENCUENTREN DE LO MEJOR Y ESPERO QUE PODAMOS HACER ESTE FORO BIEN GRANDE

MUCHA SUERTE Y FELICIDADES A TODOS POR DAR ESTE GRAN PASO...

ME GUSTARIA QUE TODOS LOS QUE TENEMOS CITA PARA ENTREVISTA EN JUNIO NOS UNAMOS ACA, EN ESTOS MOMENTOS EMOCIONATES Y NERVISOS TAMBIEN... Y CONTEMOS NUESTRAS EXPERIENCIAS



MI CITA ES EL 27 DE JUNIO... QUE NERVIOS PERO QUE ALEGRIA !!! :thumbs:


en este foro usamos ingles porque hay gente que no habla espanol y va a recibir mas respuestas cuando la gente te entiende.

tambien, recibiste muchas respuestas en el foro de latinos y gente caribe - si necesitas usar el espanol, debes hacerlo alli. cuando la mayoria del foro no te entiende, hay gente que va a ponerse enojado.

PERO - nuestra entrevista era en abril y era facil. la entrevistadora nos pregunto' cuando nos encontramos, como era nuestra boda, que hicimos despues de la boda, y ella pregunto' a mi esposo 'que es su direccion?'

ella le aprobo' en este momento y la tarjeta llego' a nuesto condominio despues de tres semanas.

buena suerte!

Edited by meow mix, 31 May 2007 - 08:34 PM.

athena_nyFemalePeru2007-05-31 20:30:00
Mexico, Latin & South Americatwo last names

nessandcharles: his middle name isn't doe, it could be angel or javier or miguel. His last name is Doe Smith.

I had wanted to see if he couldn't drop his mother's name, but for simplicity's sake (I'd rather have people massacre the pronunication of his second last name than have questions about his identity) we're trying to stick to his two last names.

We just went to the SS office and I asked how it'd appear on his card, and the man said that both last names would be included. I have heard of other people who's second surname had been dropped by some agency along the way.


My husband had problems of people always wanting to use the second surname and dropping the first one, which he was not having. Oh no, everytime it happened he got so offended you'd think someone had killed a member of his family.

Thank the Lord we got all that rectified by now.
athena_nyFemalePeru2007-07-15 15:14:00
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaDiscrimination

I don't get why people are obligated to have an account, and why are people without one being discriminated in a topic "against" discrimination. :huh:
I don't see any problems paying rent with a money order, we have an account and we pay ours cash, we prefer it this way.


:thumbs: I'm almost starting to prefer it to - don't have to wait for a check to clear!

They don't obligate you to have an acct ... says so on their website. Just us, I guess. :(
athena_nyFemalePeru2007-05-15 15:06:00
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaDiscrimination

being a landlord myself

If i could get my tenents to pay in money orders
i would be the most happiest person in the world.

But as i am rereading what happen to your hub
becareful not to call everything discrimination.
The majority of amscotts business is probably derived from immigrants,illegals, people without checking accounts etc, etc, etc,..it would not make business since to discriminate against latinos
because i am sure latinos make up a big percentage of there business...I know tampa a little bit
i actually graduated from highschool there.

now if the story would have been "whats the check for you "!@#%^%&!!" you know you people are just going to buy drugs " dam !@#$#$% or if you can prove the the majority of peruvians that come in have the same experience then you might have a claim. So if it is the first time, just chalk it up to a stupid cashier


I am not chalking it up to a stupid cashier, they will be getting a letter and a phone call from me :) Acceptance of bad service only breeds more bad service. I'll call it what it is, and he was being discriminated against. He knew it, I knew it, all the other people THERE knew it.

She broke policy to give him hard time, rudely asked me what it was for after she'd already been told when it's NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS.

It doesn't have to happen to all brown people or all Peruvians to be discrimination. It happened to us, and that's that.

But thanks for your opinion anyway. :blink:
athena_nyFemalePeru2007-05-08 05:53:00
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaDiscrimination

My husband has never written a check in his life because everything he buys or pays for is in cash. This is the Colombian mentality, why buy or get something when you don't have any money. All he has had is a savings account but never checking, so that's something else that I need to show him when he gets here.


My husband is almost exclusively cash as well...has a checking account, but rarely buys anything other than gas with his debit card. They don't take cash everywhere here, though, so he's had to adjust - like with paying the rent. I'm not sure exactly what the rental agreement calls for because the lease was signed (him, his mom, and sister - complicated situation, his mother can't work, his dad died and he works to support them to an extent) before I came in July (moved from NY). The owner is Argentinian, so for all I know he could prefer a money order (get burned a few times with bad checks and any owner would prefer a money order).

Meanwhile, I hate cash so much that I manage to save 15 dollars a week in my keep the change purchases at Bank of America.

Why we pay in a money order is not important to the story, though. That was my thing. My husband gets discriminated against and it's like, "Why were you using a money order in the first place?" like we were doing something wrong. Valid form of payment, does NOT call for discrimination whatsoever.







Not usually, we live in Florida, but I had a terrible experience with my husband (he's from Peru too) at Amscot trying to get a money order the other day. I won't get into the details it makes me so mad, but let's just say the stupid woman had the nerve to ask us WHAT IT WAS FOR. For our rent, wasn't even a lot of money. I will be complaining to their corporate office :)

My question would be why are you paying your rent with a money order? Why don't you have a regular checking account? I have always seriously wondered about situations like this.


Huh? :blink:
Paying rent is not an exclusively pay w/ check from checking account practice. Some landlords actually prefer a money order, I know of a few....or even another form of payment altogether. What agreement one has w/ their landlord for remittance of rent payment has no bearing whatsoever on having a checking account....or on why (in your opinion)especially immigrants do not have one. :wacko:

-P


Makes sense that quite a few landlords might prefer a money order, actually. A check relies on that person having the money in their account - they don't and you get burned even if you can get the money at a later date.
athena_nyFemalePeru2007-05-07 17:52:00
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaDiscrimination

Why? I think it's a legit question. I have often wondered why many people esp immigrants do not have bank accounts. I don't get it and I am just curious. Is there a reason you don't think the question should be answered?


I'm sure you meant well BUT what other people do with their money is nobody else's business. If they have a bank account or not, if they have savings or not, if they have an IRA or not, all this is stuff shouldn't concern others. It's like asking a couple who's been married for a long time why they haven't had any children. None ya business. :whistle:


I agree with your answer! But for me what was so funny about the question of why you are not using a bank account is
what the hell did it have to do with discrimination!!!

:thumbs:
athena_nyFemalePeru2007-05-07 10:26:00