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Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Oct 2nd 2012, 11:51 am
Replies: 8
Views: 3,821
Posted By tweakr

Re: Belfast consulate - are there lockers nearby?

Turns out that security has room for checking in phones and bags (provided they're not huge) anyway. I didn't get the feeling that I'd get dirty looks if I appeared there with a phone or a

Still,...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Oct 1st 2012, 2:10 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 3,821
Posted By tweakr

Re: Belfast consulate - are there lockers nearby?

Thanks for the pointers! I did call the premium rate line already (I believe it's actually a call center in Glasgow?) and they told me to just look at the site for specific info like that - but it...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Oct 1st 2012, 11:44 am
Replies: 8
Views: 3,821
Posted By tweakr

Re: Belfast consulate - are there lockers nearby?

Yeah - emphasis on before :thumbup:
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Sep 30th 2012, 6:17 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 3,821
Posted By tweakr

Belfast consulate - are there lockers nearby?

Hey all, going for an interview on Tuesday.

There seems to be conflicting info on this. Here's the official line:



Don't bring any phones - that'd be simple enough, only I'm flying in...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Jul 18th 2012, 2:29 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 1,192
Posted By tweakr

Re: Some outside insight would be helpful :)

Fortunately not. I imagine that'd knock things quite a bit off course.

Thanks for the replies!
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Jul 18th 2012, 2:07 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 1,192
Posted By tweakr

Re: Some outside insight would be helpful :)

OK, noted. Yes, seeing as this is a long-term goal - would anyone be able to shed light on my other questions from a hypothetical perspective?
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Jul 18th 2012, 1:42 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 1,192
Posted By tweakr

Re: Some outside insight would be helpful :)

Okay, but what about the other possibilities, J-1, O-1?
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Jul 18th 2012, 1:33 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 1,192
Posted By tweakr

Re: Some outside insight would be helpful :)

Can you clarify the last part? This isn't an entirely new situation for the employer, thankfully.

It's a small-ish company, not a huge multinational with a big legal department to specifically...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Jul 18th 2012, 12:04 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 1,192
Posted By tweakr

Some outside insight would be helpful :)

Hi Expats,

I've been reading for many years and I know you get a lot of these types of posts, so I'll keep this as short as possible.

* I have an offer from a small, but specialist US company...
Forum: USA
Jun 5th 2010, 4:29 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 1,030
Posted By tweakr

Re: UK TV

That is a nice TV you have there :)

Sell the European TV and get another in the US.
The only downside is that most US TVs can't accept 50hz standard video signals, so to watch UK DVDs, you'll...
Forum: USA
Nov 5th 2008, 3:40 am
Replies: 144
Views: 7,014
Posted By tweakr

Re: Obama wins.

Delighted to see this news, I watched it live.

There's a lot of work to be done, but my love for the United States may well reemerge :)
Forum: USA
Aug 5th 2005, 9:56 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 1,114
Posted By tweakr

Re: Mail forwarding - ever used Myus.com?

MyUS take care of that part as well. They seem like a good company - called them and they were instantly there to speak to me. I asked them that if what I bought was defective, would I be able to...
Forum: USA
Aug 5th 2005, 8:44 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 1,114
Posted By tweakr

Mail forwarding - ever used Myus.com?

Hey there,

People on this forum who have maybe travelled back and forth between the US will maybe be able to help me out here. I'm trying to buy something from a US online store, but the problem...
Forum: USA
Sep 9th 2004, 12:31 am
Replies: 6
Views: 650
Posted By tweakr

Re: How's this for a pretty sunset...

Send them my way (lyris1(AT)gmail.com) and I'll host the full sizers :)
Forum: USA
Sep 8th 2004, 6:06 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 650
Posted By tweakr

Re: How's this for a pretty sunset...

That's brilliant, any chance of posting bigger versions? :D
Forum: USA
Jul 1st 2004, 11:07 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,272
Posted By tweakr

There's two barriers to playing DVDs from...

There's two barriers to playing DVDs from anywhere, and they are entirely seperate from each other. One is the Region Code (1 is US and Canada, 2 is Europe and Japan, etc) and the other is the TV...
Forum: USA
Feb 6th 2004, 7:44 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 1,396
Posted By tweakr

I agree that the TV license is a total scam. The...

I agree that the TV license is a total scam. The lack of choice is undemocratic to the max and what annoys me is that the company has it's head up its own ass... many British stick by it by saying...
Forum: USA
Jan 30th 2004, 4:06 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 4,304
Posted By tweakr

Don't buy anything you don't need to - I think by...

Don't buy anything you don't need to - I think by law it HAS to say on the back of the equipment or on the power supply (if it's a seperate box, like on a laptop computer or whatever). Just look for...
Forum: USA
Jan 29th 2004, 1:32 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 755
Posted By tweakr

Whenever I order DVDs from America to the UK, I...

Whenever I order DVDs from America to the UK, I never get charged. The customs sticker just reads "Optical Media", would that work?
Forum: USA
Jan 29th 2004, 12:56 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 1,287
Posted By tweakr

Yeah, to upload to your Freeserve web space I...

Yeah, to upload to your Freeserve web space I think you have to be connected to the web through a Freeserve account.

Rockgurl, I own the domain www.landofwhimsy.com (I never take myself too...
Forum: USA
Jan 20th 2004, 11:57 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 487
Posted By tweakr

What a lunatic :D

What a lunatic :D
Forum: USA
Jan 15th 2004, 12:39 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,364
Posted By tweakr

Nah, it's not progressive :D I'm a total...

Nah, it's not progressive :D
I'm a total perfectionist with discs so I've never had this problem much, but I have a very cheap Pioneer player which is very, very sensitive to scratches.
Forum: USA
Jan 14th 2004, 10:04 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,364
Posted By tweakr

Re: dvdoverseas............?

You'll need a step-up transformer and for games that don't allow a 60hz option when they start up (most of them), a TV standards converter.
Forum: USA
Jan 14th 2004, 10:01 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 1,364
Posted By tweakr

Buying a multi-region DVD player will not always...

Buying a multi-region DVD player will not always fix the NTSC/PAL divide. You'll need to buy an additional video standards converter, I dunno how much those cost. Or, you could get a DVD player that...
Forum: USA
Jan 6th 2004, 10:23 am
Replies: 18
Views: 16,061
Posted By tweakr

That's not really true, a mod-chip installation...

That's not really true, a mod-chip installation gone badly wrong could screw up a player, but putting codes in on the remote is perfectly safe. If you put in the wrong code, the player just won't...
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