{"id":12216,"date":"2019-04-17T08:13:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T06:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=12216"},"modified":"2019-04-17T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T10:12:40","slug":"one-year-in-still-no-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2019\/04\/17\/one-year-in-still-no-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"One year in still no visa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One year ago today. On the sunny Tuesday of April 17th 2018 I visited the US embassy in Stockholm Sweden and applied for a visa<\/a>. I’m still waiting for them to respond.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My days-since-my-visa-application counter<\/a> page is still counting. Technically speaking, I had already applied but that was the day of the actual physical in-person interview that served as the last formal step in the application process. Most people are then getting their visa application confirmed within weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially I emailed them a few times after that interview since the process took so long (little did I know back then), but now I haven’t done it for many months. Their last response assured me that they are “working on it”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of things have happened in my life since last April. I quit my job at Mozilla<\/a> and started a new job at wolfSSL<\/a>, again working for a US based company. One that I cannot go visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this year I missed out on a Mozilla all-hands, I’ve been invited to the US several times to talk at conferences that I had to decline and a friend is getting married there this summer and I can’t go. And more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going forward I will miss more interesting meetings and speaking opportunities and I have many friends whom I cannot visit. This is a mild blocker to things I would want to do and it is an obstacle to my profession and career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess I might get my rejection notice before my counter reaches two full years, based on stories I’ve heard from other people in similar situations such as mine. I don’t know yet what I’ll do when it eventually happens. I don’t think there are any rules that prevent me from reapplying, other than the fact that I need to pay more money and I can’t think of any particular reason why they would change their minds just by me trying again. I will probably give it a rest a while first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m lucky and fortunate that people and organizations have adopted to my situation – a situation I of course I share with many others so it’s not uniquely<\/em> mine – so lots of meetings and events have been held outside of the US at least partially to accommodate me. I’m most grateful for this and I understand that at times it won’t work and I then can’t attend. These days most things are at least partly accessible via video streams etc, repairing the harm a little. (And yes, this is a first-world problem and I’m fortunate that I can still travel to most other parts of the world without much trouble.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally: no, I still have no clue as to why<\/em> they act like this and I don’t have any hope of ever finding out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One year ago today. On the sunny Tuesday of April 17th 2018 I visited the US embassy in Stockholm Sweden and applied for a visa. I’m still waiting for them to respond. My days-since-my-visa-application counter page is still counting. Technically speaking, I had already applied but that was the day of the actual physical in-person … Continue reading One year in still no visa<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54],"tags":[128,105,345,478,427],"class_list":["post-12216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-politics","category-work","tag-legal","tag-social-life","tag-travel","tag-visa","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12216"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12294,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216\/revisions\/12294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}