Monday, May 17, 2010. This morning, Alexey arrived at 10am to take us to the US Embassy in order to get the U.S. Immigrant Visas for the girls. We realized how nice it is to hold a U.S. passport, since we were able to go ahead of the long line waiting to get in.
Once we wound our way inside and checked in, they told us that one of the papers was still missing from Washington but that it should be in after 4pm and they could give us our interview anyway. However, we would have to come back tomorrow to pick up the visas.
We had our short interview, handed them our packet of completed papers and all original documentation and then left them with our contact information so that they can call us to give us a time to come in tomorrow.
We tried to have dinner at the Italian restaurant at the hotel, but apparently there was a Russian Delegation in town and the restaurant was closed for the private event. We had made a reservation with the concierge, but there was still nothing to be done since apparently the concierge was unaware of the restaurant closure. Jerry discussed the situation with the hotel manager, who was very apologetic and said that the situation would be “investigated”, so we had dinner at another restaurant there instead. After dinner, the concierge brought us a nice bottle of wine as an apology for the misunderstanding.
When we returned to our rooms, there were gifts that the girls were ecstatic to show us! Fruit baskets, cookies and milk, brownies…. It was heaven for them! They really got a kick out of Papi complaining to the “director” (a.k.a. management), and then having the “director” apologizing profusely with gifts and an apology note.
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