NWI INGO General Post - Part 21 - We can offically drink da moonshine!

[actaeon277]

Well, I think they've stopped flights to Russia.
But I could be wrong.
So, if she can't go to Russia..

 

[Ballstater98]

A year ago...

 

[darkkevin]

My wife found a local school that will take the 10 and 13 year old kids, which makes it easy to get them a student visa. Near as I can tell, public schools will NOT take legal foreign war refugees, but will happily take illegal aliens. So the kids need to go a Catholic or Christian school.

this country is beyond a mess

 

[bloodandgutsmurphy]

Well to complicate all this mess, Dasha has a RUSSIAN passport. The rest of Dasha's family have UKRAINIAN passports.

ALSO . . . Dasha's student visa expired, she had an appointment to get it renewed but the US embassy cancelled the appointment. Students must LEAVE the US to go to an embassy on foreign soil, get the visa renewed and then return to the US. If she leaves, she won't be allowed back in. So she is pretty much stuck here, which is good for now, but can't get a job, etc.

My wife found a local school that will take the 10 and 13 year old kids, which makes it easy to get them a student visa. Near as I can tell, public schools will NOT take legal foreign war refugees, but will happily take illegal aliens. So the kids need to go a Catholic or Christian school.

This whole situation really stinks. I'm glad to hear that Dasha's siblings have a decent shot of coming to North America.

I hope the state department renews her visa

or she may need to find a husband quickly (insert purple)

 

[melensdad]

Well, I think they've stopped flights to Russia.
But I could be wrong.
So, if she can't go to Russia..

While she has a Russian passport she has no home in Russia. She has not had a home in Russia for many years since her parents divorced and her mom, a Ukrainian, moved the family back to Kyiv, Ukraine. For some reason Dasha's passport was never switched from Russian to Ukrainian. So she now is essentially a kid without a country or a home.

She is politically being treated as a Russian, which, given her passport, seems normal. But the situation obviously is not normal given the family moved back to the Ukraine quite a few years ago.

 

[Ballstater98]

 

[2A_Tom]

And that is why we carry one.

 

[Hawkeye]

While she has a Russian passport she has no home in Russia. She has not had a home in Russia for many years since her parents divorced and her mom, a Ukrainian, moved the family back to Kyiv, Ukraine. For some reason Dasha's passport was never switched from Russian to Ukrainian. So she now is essentially a kid without a country or a home.

She is politically being treated as a Russian, which, given her passport, seems normal. But the situation obviously is not normal given the family moved back to the Ukraine quite a few years ago.

Can she go to the Ukrainian embassy or a Consulate (maybe Chicago?) and get a Ukrainian passport?

 

[Kozaturf]

Was that on I-88 eastbound? There was a sign like that yesterday when I got on 88 in Naperville headed to Oakbrook.

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No, 94 just south of 130th St.

 

[jedi]

Nite all

 

[CheeseRat]

Nite all

G'night all

 

[melensdad]

Can she go to the Ukrainian embassy or a Consulate (maybe Chicago?) and get a Ukrainian passport?

No.

She has to go to Kyiv, take a citizenship test, prove residency, etc etc etc and it WAS actually a very difficult, long process prior to the invasion. It is now impossible.

 

[1775usmarine]

Im in the market for a Russian or Ukrainian bride

 

[mmpsteve]

Morning all yuz.

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[2A_Tom]

Just Tom being Tom.

 

[chef larry]

Happy Saturday morning.

 

[Ballstater98]

Spring yard work day here. The goal is to not leave the property today.

 

[Snapdragon]

 

[Ballstater98]

Chocolate Weapons

Kinda pricy gifts, but different and they may have the corner on the market.

 

[KLB]

Chocolate Weapons

Kinda pricy gifts, but different and they may have the corner on the market.

Really not that expensive. They gave a case and a pound or two of chocolate.