wrong form?

A week ago Tito and I went to the American embassy here in Tallinn..which is also quite a story that I could blog about.. yeah.. maybe I will.

I don't know about other countries but here in Estonia in order to get into the embassy you need to go through some big security ''house'' and of course they search you and you can only go in alone. Well it would be logical for an american to get into the AMERICAN embassy whenever they wanted and they didn't have to have a reason right? Well that's not what the estonian-russian Falck security people think. They think that they should let in some random estonian girl with some visa papers rather than an american that happens to be the estonian girl's husband just because he doesn't really have a reason to go in. Yeah pretty crappy! So I ended up going in alone (after all this trouble and after trying to explain to the guys that this non-estonian looking guy outside is my husband AND an american.. oh well). So I get inside and the lady asks me if I had already paid for my visa application and my answer of course was no because I figured I could do it on the spot LIKE A YEAR AGO!!! But turned out that they had changed it and I had to actually go back out, go to a bank and pay and then go back to the embassy with more papers to apply. So when I was doing that Tito called the embassy and asked them if he really had to have a reason to go in if he was an american cause this was crazy that they wouldn't let him in and guess what.. they told him that he can go in whenever he wants without any reason so of course he took this moment to tell off the security guys (okay okay he didn't tell them off) and tell them that he was pissed and the next time he comes back he wants to go in with his wife... aaaaanyways getting back to my story... so then after doing ALL THAT.. the lady gave me a paper asking me to come back in a week for an interview.

A week passed and here we are.. it's Friday, the day that I was supposed to get my visa.........................................................................
We got there at 11 and waited outside in line for 25 minutes just to get inside and wait for another 25 minutes to be interviewd. Oh and if you're wondering about the Falck securily dudes.. oh yes they remembered us and they had no problem letting Tito in today.. well of course after me telling them that he had called the place and they said it was okay for him to go in. So we get inside and I'm not really worried at all and we're just chillin and not really disturbed by the fact that we're the LAST ones that they call up. I was very confident even when the guy was asking me questions like ''what's your purpose of going to the United States'' but I did get a little worried when he asked me ''well but what kind of visa did you apply for??'' and my heart started beating faster when he said ''well but since you're married I can't give you a tourist visa'' and my heart stopped when he said ''I'm sorry but you should have applied for an immigrant visa..and that'll take up to 2 to 6 months'' (now remember we were supposed to leave in 2 weeks). So there we are standing with our eyes and mouths open and we're stuck... there's nothing we can do and there's nothing the guy can do even though ''we seem like very nice people'' to him. there you have it!!!

We walked out being in shock and with frustration and anger and great sadness and even greater confuseness and the only thing that was in our minds was ''WHY???????????? WHAT THE HECK????????????'' and soon after that things like ''well is Tito still gonna go and leave me for 2 months???'' , ''where am I gonna get money to survive here??'' started entering my mind.

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Now as I'm writing this we're okay.. we calmed down a little bit but we're still angry and very disappointed that the embassy told us to fill out a wrong form (OOPS!!!) and now because of this we're stuck and can't do anything we had planned to do! We are going back to the embassy on Tuesday to try and work something out so please pray for us!!!!!! We trust in God and know that He is gonna make this happen one way or the other but it's very hard on us havng to deal with all the spent money and everything else! If you even have to go through what we went through today then you'll know! I hope God will give us a miracle on Tuesday! We're praying and I hope you are too!!!!!!