I'm so frustrated and angry right now that I can hardly even type. I don't understand what the hell happened and how I got to where I am right now and I have a blurry stream of random thoughts passing through my head right now that I'm going to try to sort out.
Event number one: My phone buzzes about 9am with a message from Jenny: "llamame urgente." Apparently the police called her looking for me (I put her number on the police report way back when because my phone was gone) and told her that I needed to report to the police station in Crespo by 5pm tonight. I have no freakin clue as to why they need me to go to Crespo or what this even has to do with anything, because I was robbed 3 weeks ago and haven't heard peep after filing my report.
Event number two: Yesterday I was told by my TN manager that the Visa Coordinator called and said my visa forms had been processed by the ministry and everything was fine, my visa had been granted, and I would have my passport back by Thursday. Five minutes ago he comes running through the lab door and very somberly says "I need to speak with you, now. We have a problem." My visa, in fact, had not been granted because they don't give visas for under 3 months and because my traineeship ends in the end of June there is nothing they could do. So now what? And why the hell did the visa coordinator say it had been taken care of yesterday when it, in fact, hadn't been? How the hell did this happen?
My visa expires today. Not tomorrow. Not in two weeks. TODAY. I was told in January that we'd be applying for my visa in february not april, to make sure everything went smoothly. My passport wasn't even mailed until friday and that was only because I've been bugging my TN manager about my visa status for the past month. What the heck???
So now I'm being told that I have to pay a fee for an automatic extension for an additional month, which still won't take care of it since I'm here for 2.5 months more and that delays solving the problem of me not being granted another visa. WTF.
Event 1 and 2 collide: I need to go to the DAS for the 50 billionth time since I've been here today, because otherwise I can't get the extension because my visa will have already expired. I need to go to the police station and I have no idea why. And I'm still sitting in the lab because its the last day students can get their credit for this quarter and I've made too many promises that I'd be here til 4pm. Why does EVERYTHING have to collide at the same freakin time????
Event number one: My phone buzzes about 9am with a message from Jenny: "llamame urgente." Apparently the police called her looking for me (I put her number on the police report way back when because my phone was gone) and told her that I needed to report to the police station in Crespo by 5pm tonight. I have no freakin clue as to why they need me to go to Crespo or what this even has to do with anything, because I was robbed 3 weeks ago and haven't heard peep after filing my report.
Event number two: Yesterday I was told by my TN manager that the Visa Coordinator called and said my visa forms had been processed by the ministry and everything was fine, my visa had been granted, and I would have my passport back by Thursday. Five minutes ago he comes running through the lab door and very somberly says "I need to speak with you, now. We have a problem." My visa, in fact, had not been granted because they don't give visas for under 3 months and because my traineeship ends in the end of June there is nothing they could do. So now what? And why the hell did the visa coordinator say it had been taken care of yesterday when it, in fact, hadn't been? How the hell did this happen?
My visa expires today. Not tomorrow. Not in two weeks. TODAY. I was told in January that we'd be applying for my visa in february not april, to make sure everything went smoothly. My passport wasn't even mailed until friday and that was only because I've been bugging my TN manager about my visa status for the past month. What the heck???
So now I'm being told that I have to pay a fee for an automatic extension for an additional month, which still won't take care of it since I'm here for 2.5 months more and that delays solving the problem of me not being granted another visa. WTF.
Event 1 and 2 collide: I need to go to the DAS for the 50 billionth time since I've been here today, because otherwise I can't get the extension because my visa will have already expired. I need to go to the police station and I have no idea why. And I'm still sitting in the lab because its the last day students can get their credit for this quarter and I've made too many promises that I'd be here til 4pm. Why does EVERYTHING have to collide at the same freakin time????
posted by Lindsey at
2:42 PM
3 Comments:
man that sucks, good luck figuring everything out!
I also almost got deported when I was in Medellin, but instead had to conseguir salvacion...but the DAS is horribly bureaucratic, buena suerte!
By
Molly, At
4/16/2008 11:58 PM
Bober, I love you.
-R4L
By
cebulka26, At
4/17/2008 7:56 PM
i think the DAS' mission is to make all extranjeros' lives miserable. the people who work there are the meanest colombians i have ever met. i think there are only like 10 mean colombians in the whole country and they make them all go work at the DAS.
By
SarahEliz, At
4/17/2008 8:39 PM
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