March 23, 2004
I'm a just blogger, give me a US visa please
Ok, this is absolutely frustrating, getting a US Visa for an Iranian-born Canadian landed immigrant I mean.
Dave Winer (with the great help of Jeff Jarvis) have invited me to this years BloggerCon at Harvard, hoping that with a longer notice I could get a visa this time. But it wasn't the case.
I logged on to the US Visa appointment website a couple of weeks ago and tried to book an appointment. But the earliest available time was on April 21st, a week after the conference!
I wrote them and asked them to book an earlier appointment, they did so, but it was on April 1st, in the middle of my short trip to Switzerland this weekend to see my parents.
Then I though to apply for an earlier appointment in Montreal. I did so and again received the confirmation letter by mail for an appointment on April 6th.
However it was cancelled again since I don't live there and I have to get the appointment from Toronto consulate.
Is there anyone out there who can help me get an earlier appointment from Toronto consulate? I badly want to be in Boston for the BloggerCon.
UPDATE:
- Jeff is trying to get some help in his latest post. I just talked to him and asked him for help.
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Sorry to hear about this problem, compadre. The visa requirement does make it tough to be in the USA, and they'll definitely do this stuff on their schedule not the applicants'.
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The more pathetic thing is that things are not going to look better after you obtain a Canadian passport.
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Yassin was set free by no less than Benjamin Netanyahu when he was prime minister of Israel. King Hussein wasn't a "broker" between two sides.
Two Israeli Mossad agents had tried to murder a Hamas official in Amman, the capital of an Arab nation which had a peace agreement with Israel.
They had injected the Hamas man with poison, and the late King Hussein called the US president in fury and threatened to put the captured Mossad men on trial if he wasn't given the antidote to the poison and if Yassin wasn't released.
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The Israelis repeatedly threaten to murder Yasser Arafat. It's getting to be a habit.
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