Matt's Interview....

So this past Friday I took a day off work to get up at the crack of dawn (more like 6:30) to get to the US Embassy early for Matt's interview.  It didn't go like I wanted.  We turned in all the paperwork and the woman told me my joint sponsor was missing his w-2's and that I could only have one sponsor, so I told her to use the second one instead.  Her response was "I can't, because he checked number 2 sponsor".  Leave it to the US embassy to make things so hard.  So I knew then he wouldn't be approved because of missing paperwork. Then after 2 and a half hours of waiting Matt was called up for his interview.  After a few minutes of talking I was called over, the asked me simple questions like How did we meet? why don't we leave together during the week? (and to be honest this day in age not living together because of work is very common so I don't know why the question was relevant) but I explained and told him to refer to the skype conversations printout of the last three months.  Then he told me that we are missing paperwork the w-2 and that I needed to show that I had a job lined up in the US when I get back.  Because I had traveled so much they didn't think I would return to the US.  Then they told us Matt would have to go through more processing because he is from Iran.  So that was icing on a very terrible cake.  Matt didn't quite understand and we left with our blue paper.  I was so upset because I wanted it to be done that he took it as them saying no, but after carefully explaining it to him.  He told me it will all be ok and he'll get the visa.  Leave it to Matt to be the strong one. (granted he had a mini breakdown later when we got home because he told me "he wanted to cry" and asked "why is his life so hard"....he also asked "why does my father hate him" because the interviewer said it would be easier if my father was the co-sponsor).

After that I called my mother, co-worker (who forgot where I was and thought I was missing a day of work).  I spoke with her about the job situation and she stated that I could just work for my dad and get the letter from him.  When she told him he said "no" but then I got my younger sister to explain that it wasn't for Matt but for me, and he said yes.  So I'm hoping to get all the paperwork back on Wednesday (Matt will take time off work to take it to the embassy himself). 

Matt understood that the outcome made us both upset so he tried his best to make it better.  So we decided to go out and we went to Hyehwa (a college area near where we live) to have Iranian food at a place called "Shiraz".

I have to say it made me feel much better.  The two Iranians guys who worked there were very soft spoken and extremely nice.  They spoke Farsi to Matt and English to me.  I just wished everyone could get pass the Iranian government and see how nice, welcoming and wonderful the Iranian people are. I spent the night enjoying lamb kebab, drinking crazy amounts of tea...

and smoking the hookah (lemon this time and it was really good) with great company.  So it was a nice end to a terrible day.

I've come to the conclusion that it will all work out in the end.  So it's best to just enjoy the time we have left in Korea.