I have come to the same conclusion Pareeka. They know that we have to come to them, and hence they are abusing their power. Those type of people shouldn’t be in office anyway. Sometimes I wish I was @ a governmental position where I could make a difference. At one time I wanted to be an immigration officer, but then computers has always been my life.

I dont know, that was just a thought that popped into my head……what do u think?

Hope neeraj is able to find the right person to “Speed up the process”

Good luck to you both..dont worry..I am sure it will all work out just fine :)

I did read the whole comment. We have decided that its going to be almost impossible for Neeraj to go to Lucknow on the 20th. We are going to cancel the train tickets and get a reschedule on the plane ticket.

Oh Neeru. I know that you are going through a lot because of this visa. I promise it will be worthwhile for both of us. I do hope that he does send it to the CID office as soon as possible.

No Mannat. We are never forget this fiasco:!: Neeraj and I have gone through so much and that is one of the reasons that we are keeping this weblog so that we can jot down all of the problems that we have faced. Once this whole process is over I am going to make a K1 Visa for Mumbai site where other couples can check out the stuff that we went through so no one ever have to face what we have faced.

I know that in life nothing is easy — but this is ridiculous! I am not one to complain, I don’t like to or anything, and we are facing this through, but come on yaar, when you run takkar with these incompetant people you get frustrated. It burns me that there are illiterate people at these positions that really they are not qualified to be in.

read the start n end :P

Actually i did have a run in once at the passport office here in brisbane. My birth certificate does not list my dad’s surname (MURTI) as my surname; instead it has my mothers maiden name (DEVI) as my surname (a stuff up from fiji but no-one really gave it much thought at the time). But i have been using Murti as my surname all along. When we first came to Australia my passport was issued under Devi as per birth certificate. But all my other stuff, school and uni records, drivers license, bank accounts etc are all under Murti. So when i went to renew my passport late last year i decided that i would finally get my passport issued under Murti too. But because its not listed in the birth certificate and my previous passport didnt have that name in it, they basically refused to do it. Because of all the terrorism going around, you have to present a original birth cerficate or citizenship with ur correct name. Now both these papers list my surname as Devi.

So i finally conceded and just said for them to go ahead and renew my passport under that surname. Then they asked me for some current identification with that surname:duh:. Duh! After i had just finished telling them that all my idenfication was already under the name of Murti. I told them that i had nothing to give them, to which they then replied that they would not reissue a passport under Devi as i had no current documentation supporting that fact.:duh:

So i said to them that they were refusing to give me a passport under Devi and under Murti so what was i suppose to do? My tone of voice by this time had developed some attitude to it:blush: which probably did not help matters.

So after a lot of arguing and waiting around i was finally told to go to the births,deaths and marriages register and get a change of name documentation (which cost me $130).

When i got to that office, i got into another argument over not having any current idenfication under the name Devi. After alot of:duh: i finally handed over the form and money and got my receipt only to be told that it could take anywhere from 8-11 weeks to process! So i went through my whole story how i needed it within the next 4-5 weeks.

The guy beind the counter was really nice and he said that if i brought my itinery, he could put rush on it for me. So atleast my story had a happy ending.

But the point i was trying to make was that stuff ups happen everywhere but surely not as much as you guys have had to deal with in india. Just think, not long to go now. Keep the patience. Hopefully though everything will be ready so that Neeraj wont have to miss his flight to Lucknow. Will pray that everything goes according to plan for you guys.