Last Day @Gurgaon

Tomorrow is going to be the last day at Gurgaon, mixed emotions.
We had an easy going life here, lots of fun, few good friends, many weekend trips and unlimited shopping. This is the end of an era.

Hope to have a good life and great friends in the next phase of life.

Aanchal is due to leave Hyderabad tomorrow and I'll leave to Kota along with all grahasthi ka saaman.

Applied !

Finally on 20/04/2012 we have submitted the documents and bio-metric information to the VFS center. Hope it'll all work out ! 

Not A Judgement Day

We completed all rituals and reached the center before time. We called a cab at 0800 and he dropped us at Nehru Place (21kms from our place in Delhi traffic) at 0830 !

We submitted the visa fee (40800+200Rs each) and waited to submit the documents. We, however, din't submit the docs because the letter of authority and the letter of maintenance were not in original. I had the faxed copies as instructed by my visa agent in London. I was informed that the high commission will only make the decision but the VFS staff repeatedly insisted that I must submit the original copies, not the faxed or scanned ones.

I returned back with all our documents. I have not applied for visa. I have informed HR in UK to send me original docs. I'll wait for them and apply at once.

Better to wait for a week than couple of months.

Judgement Day

Tomorrow, 17th April is the visa interview appointment day. I have prepared all documents and visa fee. I have booked a cab to be able to reach interview center (Nehru Place) in a neat and timely manner.

I'll go clean shaved like a good boy that I am and hope for the best !

Twist

I have been told that the UK job has been postponed by a month. This gives me enough time to apply for the UK visa. Norway job will be covered by Jay Ortega.

I have to apply for the visa ASAP. Now the visa agent is not replying to my emails, not sure what's going on. I need a couple of more documents to apply for the visa.

Today I came to know that both me and wife can work and study on this visa once in UK. That was the plan.

Moving to UK

This is high time. I received my long awaited job offer from UK just last month. I have been waiting to apply for the visa now.

Last couple of weeks:
My manager asked me to travel to Egypt to help out on an offshore operation. Although I work for Europe and Sub Saharan Africa region and Egypt falls in MENA region and I can very well say no to this assignment, I displayed my good guy attitude and accepted it.
Now that operation in Egypt got cancelled and I had to spend stupid couple of weeks there doing nothing. Visa application got delayed.

Next couple of weeks:
My manager has asked me to travel to Norway to help out on another offshore operation. I am not sure when will that happen so I am sitting at home on standby mode. I can not apply for the visa as my passport will be retained at the embassy once I have applied. It'll take 3-4 weeks before I'll get my passport back. I am being very nice and very patience these days, which is not usual me.

I just hope it'll all work out fine. If it'll not, it'll be a BIG mess. I'll create it for them.