back on track
just got a nice email from the fbi director saying they would expedite our request – getting us results within 2 weeks. that would be 16 weeks, but hey i’m not complaining – that will meet our deadline. 16 weeks…
Tag Application
14 weeks + 4 days = 19 weeks
so when i last spoke to the fbi in mid december they said it was taking 14 weeks (instead of the advertised 8 to 10) to process requests. today is 14 weeks and nuttin’ in the mailbox, so i called…
welcome to our new readers (aka the cat’s out of the bag)
over the holidays we shared our plans with our families. hello families. reactions were exactly as expected. how’s that for sinisterly vague?… since the application process is so long and approval by no means assured our plan was to keep…
emc hr comes through
after getting the bad new from tracy i called emc hr earlier in the week and left a message asking about my work history letter request. i was not very optimistic since the vmail greeting basically said “i’m in non…
bad kharma
part of our application is to provide evidence of my work history including job titles. i joined epoch in 1990, it was acquired by emc in 1994 and i left in 1996. i was definitely not looking forward to cold…
we’re officially in line
called the fbi again today and the good news is that can now confirm that they received our request on 02-OCT. they confirmed that requests are taking 14 weeks so that would put us at 08-JAN. if they hit that…
total darkness
the fbi website said that it would take 8 to 10 weeks to process criminal record requests. today is the 9 week mark so i decided to give them a call and see where we were. the website doesn’t have…
my new job – pedro the house boy
the week before thanksgiving i could tell that something was up at work, so the day before i confronted the ceo who offered “you should be looking”. happy holidays – enjoy your turkey. today they let the entire client dev…
the ita has arrived
the official invitation to apply (ita) arrived today in a thick package from london. it came registered so i had to go to the post office to sign for it. i’ll admit it was very exciting. i was dreading filling…
five boxes ticked, $28.33 spent
saturday morning went on a road trip with the jboss to one of the few notary public’s who has weekend hours so we could get certified copies of our passpost and diplomas. this lets us check off 5 items on…