Moving to USA/Illinois
 

Hi
My name is Paul,, I work professionally as The Celtic Seer, a Professional Psychic I met the most wonderful person two years ago and am now looking at Moving to USA to be with her.
Any help and advice on pitfalls and hold ups to this would be helpful.
I'm also looking to ship my property, a load of goods already boxed up, Do I need to List every item, What is the best company to use, what are time constraints, and what documentation do I actually need to go about doing this!!
Thank you so much for any help you can give
Paul E Montador
The Celtic Seer

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Hi Paul! Good luck with your move. Hey are you two getting married? Do you have a visa already in hand?

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Yes we are planning on getting married, but have still to apply for the k-1 as yet!!
So any help advice is appreciated

Many Blessings

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Might want to start in the Marriage Based Visa forum. I'm sure you'll get a lot of information there... Good luck!

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Though surely, as a psychic, you know all the answers to these questions already.....

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:rofl:
Good Luck with the wedding planning.

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Sorry but its a known Fact Psychics have problems reading themselves!!
But I do try!!
I pull three Tarot Cards every day!!

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Maybe tomorrow when you take 3 cards from your tarot deck there might be a "green" one in there:fingerscrossed:

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Hi Paul,

The biggest pitfall is not doing one's research properly. If you're the sort of person who pays attention to detail and reads instructions carefully things should be straightforward. If you're not....well, now's a good time to start!

What shipment method to use depends a lot on how much stuff you are bringing. Some people whittle their essential belongings down to a few boxes and bags. They mail the boxes via FedEx, UPS or the royal mail and bring the bags on the airplane with them. My DH and I shipped about 450 cubic feet of stuff via boat, which was about 200 small-to-medium boxes, two large boxes, some instrument cases and a bunk bed set sans mattresses. Others ship the entire contents of their house, complete with furniture, and some look into shipping cars! If you use an sea-based shipping method plan on being without your stuff for at least 2 or 3 months. A good shipping company will walk you through the paperwork requirements. Keep copies of everything. You will not be able to have the stuff arrive in the US before you arrive there yourself, for customs reasons. You don't need to list EVERY item (ie the title of every book and DVD, the number of socks you are bringing) but you will need to give a reasonable representation of what is in the boxes (ie "books", "clothes", "guitar" etc.)

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Since the K-1 will take you the better part of a year to learn about and complete, you will probably be better off spending your time now learning about that. You'll have plenty of down time in between the steps of that application to learn about things like shipping.

Check out the pinned topics in the marriage based visa forum: http://britishexpats.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=35

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That is exactly what I was thinking... get the visa process going first then think about packing etc. It took 8 months from me first applying to having the K1 visa in my passport.

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Good luck with your marriage. I do have one question; do you see yourself as a professional entertainer, or do you genuinely believe you have some supernatural ability? Not going to be snarky - I just wondered.

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I know he need a damn good haircut

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:lol: Oh that British sense of humor, what a bunch of kidders! No wonder you all miss it when you're in the US. :lol:

:blink:

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Sorry its not supernatural, its an inbuilt gift!
check out my website www.thecelticseer.co.uk
Promise I'm not advertising, just letting you understand more
I was born with it, and have been told I'm very good

As for haircuts, Nah, I'm a Celt, we always have long wild hair!!

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I subscribe to the James Randi school, myself; you know, cold reading etc, that sort of thing.

Anyway, I wish you the best. I had a nice time in Chicago recently. 'Thought the people were great, very friendly. Fantastic city.

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What is this I don't even

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yes I generaly do cold readings, as I do not know who I'm reading, I do a lot on a Blog Talk Radio show, and on bitwine, as well as off my own site
I've even recently starte communicating with animals!!

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I communicate with dogs all the time. Rubbing their bellies, haunches, under their chins. To hell with cats. Don't do 'em.

And Ray is from the generation of national service and short back and sides.
Think Mr MacKay from Porridge, without the moustache. Just a grizzled old hackneyed ex-copper from the Big Smoke.

From wikipedia:
Cold reading is a series of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, illusionists, and con artists to determine or express details about another person, often in order to convince them that the reader knows much more about a subject than they actually do.[1] Without prior knowledge of a person, a practiced cold reader can still quickly obtain a great deal of information about the subject by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, race or ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. Cold readers commonly employ high probability guesses about the subject, quickly picking up on signals from their subjects as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not, and then emphasizing and reinforcing any chance connections the subjects acknowledge while quickly moving on from missed guesses.

It's an interesting skill to have. I have somewhat of an innate ability myself, but probably nowhere as developed as yourself.

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Your talents will be wasted in IL. Go West, NORCAL is the place for you.

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There's a Brit out here who can do it via e-mail or telephone conversation. I've chatted with her about it all, her background etc and with my interest in and investigation of certain eastern practices believe it's quite legit.

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And ignore whomever said to go West: There are fools - and the money they are so eager to part with - everywhere.

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I have no problem with it as long as you don't represent cold-reading as anything supernatural/preternatural. It's entertainment.

After Erich Weiss/Harry Houdini's mother died, he dedicated a lot of his time to exposing flim-flam artists, mediums and spiritualists; debunking spirit cabinets, seances etc. He only went after those who misrepresented themselves as having real "magical" powers.

Englishman43: do tell about your interest and investigation into these certain Eastern practices. What are they and why do you think they are legit.
Bearing in mind that the James Randi Educational Foundation $1 million challenge has yet to be claimed after all these years.

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/...lenge-faq.html

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I spoke with an English lady out here several years ago,just by chance, who had the "gift" the OP has. We chatted quite a bit about when she first discovered it, how she "reads" people etc, etc.

I've read quite a few books, science based, on rates of vibration and their effect on plants, books on the structure of the universe and such and then spent 3 years studying meditation and spiritual healing thru a fellowship here, not a religion in it's own right , rather a system of beliefs built on scientific fact and taking from several different religions and there is a common thread between the English Lady, the reading I've done ( and I didn't seek out books to suit the way I was thinking , all were given to me by friends with a "check this out it's pretty interesting" comment) and the study.

Rates of vibration and how they can, and do, effect everything weather or not we like it.


I'm as sceptical as a man can be but through everything I've learned I have completely changed my way of thinking.


I'm aware of James Randi, have seen several documentaries about his work and agree that there are a lot of 'chancers' out there that are fleecing people - much like every other aspect of life - but tarring everyone with the same brush is very close minded.

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Vibrations, vapors and spirits, oh my! :)

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Sorry - if I'd realized you wanted to take the piss I wouldn't have bothered wasting time replying to your question.

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Respectfully, it it was truly science-based, there would be general acceptance in the scientific community. It's simply bad science under the guise of "real" science.

Ian

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Stephen Hawking said its all a load of bollocks ..and he is a tad smarter that your average long haired lout

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My apologies. I do appreciate you taking the time to reply. It's just that talking about "vibrations" seems so Victorian.

You could argue that vibrations are the same as, say, a magnetic field; a way of describing a sphere of influence. It's language we use to describe something. Like chi, in acupuncture.

But while a 'field' is an abstract way of thinking about something, it has demonstrable, measurable effects. Can "vibrations" be measured?

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The Beach Boys thought so!

Ian

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:D