one more voice in the human choir

It's a date!

6:23 a.m. Saturday morning. The phone woke me up.

I looked at my alarm clock and thought, "That had better be James and he'd better be calling with good news!"

Sure enough! James got his packet from the US Embassy on Saturday morning. (Well, it arrived at his parents' home and his mum called with the news.) His interview is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. this Friday - May 14. Yay!! What a good way to wake up on a Saturday morning! :-)

He's pulling together the last of the bits of information that he needs for that such as vaccination records. And £125 for the medical, £10 for them to post the visa and £60 for the interview - all of which comes to nearly $350 at the current exchange rates. (!!! Sometimes this feels a little bit like extortion, but you do what you have to do...)

We've read enough online accounts of other peoples' visa interview experiences at the US Embassy in London, so we're not feeling too nervous. Still, it will be good to have this over with and James to have the visa in hand. The current plan is for him to fly here on May 23 although he won't book that flight until he's completed the interview and knows that everything is in order. In any case, it's good to have a date to count down to ... yet again!