Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 14:31:15 -0500 From: Michael Cash Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Changing visa status Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 04:31:11 +0900 Message-ID: References: <1116287987.971913.10730@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 29 X-Trace: sv3-QVpcaQUzDeauwe2nkt0YVemY9Tk3DOiMYI0OROBQvwdd8xQOx5pMXITEq57dUvghcOkD69CrUb4EYAr!7YqqI8m35NX2lEUhOlFpZXVVToXOZaXwyKnQcZEKntpppz67hM4c6XnX2mNw2DJWsfFM7so= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:27409 On Thu, 19 May 2005 23:20:12 +0900, B Robson brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: > > >I went to immigration today to renew my visa. It should a simple process >but at this little office they only have two people serving. I waited 2 >hours just to submit the documents only to be told I had the old >versions of the forms. So I go the new forms and off to a cafe for lunch >while the office was closed, filled in the new forms and back to wait >for another 2 hours just to sunmit the forms. Nice boring day sitting in >a waiting area. Sounds like Tokyo Disneyland, minus the mouse. -- Michael Cash "Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash. Clowns and jokers." Prof. Ernest T. Bass Mount Pilot College