robclews

An earlier thread reminded me of an incident at my Fingerprint and EAD appointment a few weeks back that amused me.

For those from the UK who have traveled on a Visa Waiver to the States, the form you fill tells you not to use the descriptive of England as your country of origin but to use UK. I continues to use this on all my applications during the K1 and AOS process.

When I went for my AOS fingerprints in Baltimore recently, I used the UK on the form as normal only to be asked what part of the Ukraine I came from !!!!!! the code UK in their system was not as I expected.

The BCIS departments should really talk to each other a bit more,

Rob

Gasherjohn

I would have liked to use Wales but then you get the "is it a fish or a mammal" sort of look.

I think some Americans understand Great Britain better than UK or United Kingdom. Someone said on another post that the countries making up the UK should be called provinces and then admitted that they may be talking a load of rubbish, or words to that effect. Having said that though I had to reluctantly show the Wales part of my address as a province or state in one of the INS forms I filled in so that I could still show UK as the country.

I don't know about other Welsh people on this forum but I am thinking of wearing a baseball cap saying "I am from Wales not England" as I have had to tell so many people here where I actually come from!

Cymru am byth (Wales forever)

John

cindyabs

You are right John, several years ago I was mailing something to Steve and the postal clerk asked me what the UK was while she weighed the parcel. I told her United Kingdom and then she asked me where that was...........

sal_whit

I know that feeling all to well, I have found that putting England UK has helped a little!!!
At least I don't get asked at the post office any more "Where is this going"??? LOL.

Sal

BeachBunny

My husband got soooo tired of trying to explain where Wales was that he started telling people he was from Kentucky! He's from Clynderwen... I admit it took me actually going to Clynderwen for the name to stop going in one ear and out the other for me.

Laura

Paul Wells

sal_whit <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
    > I know that feeling all to well, I have found that putting England UK
    > has helped a little!!!
    >
You could always extend it further -

England,
Great Britain,
United Kingdom,
Europe,
Northern Hemisphere,
The World,
The Solar System,
The Universe.

--
Paul (living in the independent republic of Fremont)

BritishInOhio

When I went for my fingerprinting in Columbus OH they did not have UK or GB in their system they had England, Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland but on all the forms up to then I have put UK. Who knows this is a crazy country so nothing surprises me any more, nothing at all!!!

Gasherjohn

Hey Laura (Beach Bunny), how long did it take for you to manage to actually say Clynderwen? I lived in a place that began with Llan.... Cindy had fun with that. She is currently trying to get her tongue around the Welsh for SIX (chwech)

I wonder how far my immigration application would get if I stated my country as Cymru.... just a thought!

BritishInOhio

I come from Llanelwy, or St. Asaph as it is more commonly known!

Pulaski

From what my wife says, the US postal service expects mail to Blighty to be addressed to Great Britain, not United Kingdom; and I always use "United Kingdom".

However legally, internationally "United Kingdom" is the correct name to use. There was, a few years ago, discussion about changing the country's name to Great Britain, however at the United Nations that would have moved the British ambassador from between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States to somewhere near, if not next to, the French. Needless to say the idea was dropped!

Of course the full name on a British passport is the "United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland", which presumably explains why the first Green Card I was issued with showed my country of birth as "Ireland"

Squire

In article <[email protected]>, Gasherjohn <member1060
[email protected]> writes
    >I wonder how far my immigration application would get if I stated my
    >country as Cymru.... just a thought!

Or if your place of birth was -

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch

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squire
Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. (Groucho)