The only helpful thing I can think of is to look up Susanna Bogue. She's a really good immigration attorney here in San Francisco who helped me with my wife's case a couple of decades ago. I don't have her contact information but I'm sure she's easy to find.
I don't know what to say, Amy. The only suggestion I can make would be to personally meet with your case worker. The U.S. Embassy is in Bangkok? I would find an apartment near the embassy. I would live on the doorstep. I would present myself as the most friendly, efficient role model for a visa applicant. If they asked for some material, I would have the material back on their desk the next day. Would living in a centralized location like Bangkok enable you to acquire what you need more rapidly than living outside of a big city?
I'm also flummoxed because haven't Covid injection requirements been dropped? Are you being denied because other vaccinations haven't been met?
I would write Pres. Trump for help.
Could you be targeted? I don't know. I will, however, remark (not accusing you, Amy!) that I note a tremendous tendency today for people to announce that they've been targeted or are being targeted. I'm wondering if EMFs affect an area of the brain which causes suspicion and mistrust. E.g., if I interact with a person personally and note certain occurrences within their sphere of influence happening to me, I would look closely at this individual. I'm simply unfamiliar with a nebulous and generalized feeling of being targeted, but I don't live in your shoes.
I also, of course, exempt from this analysis those who have specifically gone against the government and suffered consequences. One such instance was a woman who worked as an asset for the CIA and saw the government ignore warnings about 9/11. She began speaking up and suffered dire consequences. She wrote a book whose title I forget, but she was absolutely targeted--spent years in jail.
I also wonder if growing up with the technology available today affects the brain in this area. I just don't know, Amy, but wish you the very best.
The memes were terrific! Especially the one about the radio and TV. Please both Ka and you take care. I hope Ka's seizures stop.
Am I being paranoid in musing about being targeted? I really have no idea. I do know I have seen clear instances of shadow banning especially of my antivax content dating back to at least 2014. I could simply be targeted algorithmically, which sounds less nefarious but is actually more so.
I don't see a clear way to comply harder my way into this by moving to Bangkok and trying to suck up outside the US Embassy every day until somebody talks to us. There is the Bangkok problem though which is that a great many things, services and documents requested are only available there, so I do still mull my options regarding a trip to the area. Right now of course there are no document requests all they're telling me is to talk to the State Department, which is so far an AI chatbot with no helpful information. Also the visa case number is not listed anywhere on their site, only on the CEAC system, which is the consular electronic system.
I can't figure out the specific type of vaccine waiver. For months the US Embassy played football telling me that only the panel physician would issue a vaccine waiver (we're opposed to all jabs not just Covid) but the panel physician and the hospital repeatedly said I needed a waiver from the US Embassy first. So right now I'm not sure who to go to, what form to fill out, or who to present it to.
Thanks for the prayers. On the plus side my husband has not had a grand mal seizure since April 29 or so, though ideally I'd prefer that he never has one again. My daughter also had her follow up check on her Drussen. It's still there but the condition has not worsened.
Wow, Amy. Sorry to hear of all the limitations you face. I don't know why the panel physician and hospital say the Embassy needs to issue a vaccine waiver first. Seems counterintuitive. Why would the physician/hospital be required to issue a vaccine waiver when the Embassy already did so? I wonder why the hospital is telling you so? No need to answer. Just thinking out loud. Best of luck.
The AI chatbots are horrible. They all seem to be programmed to assume certain things which are not at all true in my individual case. For example Ka's visa case number cannot be found on the State Department's e visa system, even though it is on the Consular website. So I cannot even get past square one because I do not have a case number. The AI chatbot informs me that some fees take up to 48 hours to load in their system, which assumes that I started Ka's visa case yesterday as opposed to beginning it over five years ago. That is the only answer it will provide and there is no way to contact a human for help.
I am going to try again tonight during business hours in the USA to find a live human who can at least point me in the right direction, but it is tough...
"Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear"
Marcus Aurelius
Verse 18, Book V of Meditations
The only helpful thing I can think of is to look up Susanna Bogue. She's a really good immigration attorney here in San Francisco who helped me with my wife's case a couple of decades ago. I don't have her contact information but I'm sure she's easy to find.
I don't know what to say, Amy. The only suggestion I can make would be to personally meet with your case worker. The U.S. Embassy is in Bangkok? I would find an apartment near the embassy. I would live on the doorstep. I would present myself as the most friendly, efficient role model for a visa applicant. If they asked for some material, I would have the material back on their desk the next day. Would living in a centralized location like Bangkok enable you to acquire what you need more rapidly than living outside of a big city?
I'm also flummoxed because haven't Covid injection requirements been dropped? Are you being denied because other vaccinations haven't been met?
I would write Pres. Trump for help.
Could you be targeted? I don't know. I will, however, remark (not accusing you, Amy!) that I note a tremendous tendency today for people to announce that they've been targeted or are being targeted. I'm wondering if EMFs affect an area of the brain which causes suspicion and mistrust. E.g., if I interact with a person personally and note certain occurrences within their sphere of influence happening to me, I would look closely at this individual. I'm simply unfamiliar with a nebulous and generalized feeling of being targeted, but I don't live in your shoes.
I also, of course, exempt from this analysis those who have specifically gone against the government and suffered consequences. One such instance was a woman who worked as an asset for the CIA and saw the government ignore warnings about 9/11. She began speaking up and suffered dire consequences. She wrote a book whose title I forget, but she was absolutely targeted--spent years in jail.
I also wonder if growing up with the technology available today affects the brain in this area. I just don't know, Amy, but wish you the very best.
The memes were terrific! Especially the one about the radio and TV. Please both Ka and you take care. I hope Ka's seizures stop.
Am I being paranoid in musing about being targeted? I really have no idea. I do know I have seen clear instances of shadow banning especially of my antivax content dating back to at least 2014. I could simply be targeted algorithmically, which sounds less nefarious but is actually more so.
I don't see a clear way to comply harder my way into this by moving to Bangkok and trying to suck up outside the US Embassy every day until somebody talks to us. There is the Bangkok problem though which is that a great many things, services and documents requested are only available there, so I do still mull my options regarding a trip to the area. Right now of course there are no document requests all they're telling me is to talk to the State Department, which is so far an AI chatbot with no helpful information. Also the visa case number is not listed anywhere on their site, only on the CEAC system, which is the consular electronic system.
I can't figure out the specific type of vaccine waiver. For months the US Embassy played football telling me that only the panel physician would issue a vaccine waiver (we're opposed to all jabs not just Covid) but the panel physician and the hospital repeatedly said I needed a waiver from the US Embassy first. So right now I'm not sure who to go to, what form to fill out, or who to present it to.
Thanks for the prayers. On the plus side my husband has not had a grand mal seizure since April 29 or so, though ideally I'd prefer that he never has one again. My daughter also had her follow up check on her Drussen. It's still there but the condition has not worsened.
Thank the Lord...
Wow, Amy. Sorry to hear of all the limitations you face. I don't know why the panel physician and hospital say the Embassy needs to issue a vaccine waiver first. Seems counterintuitive. Why would the physician/hospital be required to issue a vaccine waiver when the Embassy already did so? I wonder why the hospital is telling you so? No need to answer. Just thinking out loud. Best of luck.
For you, Amy. For anyone interested...
Please allow 30 minutes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rkMJvG5gkzk
J6 meme. Good question.
It just hit me reading your post Amy. All the talk about AI replacing us and they can’t even handle constructing a helpful chatbot lol.
Still going I see. Keep it up you gotta be wearing them down at this point. 😉
The AI chatbots are horrible. They all seem to be programmed to assume certain things which are not at all true in my individual case. For example Ka's visa case number cannot be found on the State Department's e visa system, even though it is on the Consular website. So I cannot even get past square one because I do not have a case number. The AI chatbot informs me that some fees take up to 48 hours to load in their system, which assumes that I started Ka's visa case yesterday as opposed to beginning it over five years ago. That is the only answer it will provide and there is no way to contact a human for help.
I am going to try again tonight during business hours in the USA to find a live human who can at least point me in the right direction, but it is tough...
Something I recently learned, it may help to go into a government office to place the actual call. Sometimes they have private numbers to get thru.
Good Luck!!
Suggested reading:
"Killing Hope" by William Blum.
US Military and CIA interventions since World War II
And then it all will make sense.
Television and radio are strictly forbidden in my household, as is any discussion or mention of what is played on either.