Inconvenient Annoyances

Been trying to get an NCS appointment for 10 days now (they just say that someone will call me back). They did last week but don't do Friday appointments so I told them I'd have to ring back after speaking to my husband. So the next day I called them back and then it was the whole process of 'Someone will call you back shortly'...Thursday, no call, Friday No call...so I called back Friday and was rudely told that the NCS staff don't work on Friday and that Thursday the person didn't show up and that I should get a call back on Monday.

Well Monday came & went, yup you guessed it NO CALL!  A little while ago I decided that I was going to ring again but was sidetracked... Finally a few minutes ago someone did call back and I made the appointment for 2 weeks out because we're in London next week and then they tell me 'we need your debit card details to pay for the service over the phone' Um...no, my husband has the card and he's just left for work via the dentist's surgery so I don't have that information and this is the first I'm hearing that I have to pay for it in advance...and I'm fairly certian that DH is not going to want to give out his debit card details over the phone. She then tells me that when I'm ready to comply with the appointment requriements to ring back to the main number and request for an adviser to call to arrange an appointment...great another 10 days wasted!

Maybe this is a sign I really shouldn't be doing this?!?!

    

Why do things just get more and more difficult, Weby?  Does someone sit up all night thinking up ways to torture us all?

Been trying to get an NCS appointment for 10 days now (they just say that someone will call me back). They did last week but don't do Friday appointments so I told them I'd have to ring back after speaking to my husband. So the next day I called them back and then it was the whole process of 'Someone will call you back shortly'...Thursday, no call, Friday No call...so I called back Friday and was rudely told that the NCS staff don't work on Friday and that Thursday the person didn't show up and that I should get a call back on Monday.

Well Monday came & went, yup you guessed it NO CALL!  A little while ago I decided that I was going to ring again but was sidetracked... Finally a few minutes ago someone did call back and I made the appointment for 2 weeks out because we're in London next week and then they tell me 'we need your debit card details to pay for the service over the phone' Um...no, my husband has the card and he's just left for work via the dentist's surgery so I don't have that information and this is the first I'm hearing that I have to pay for it in advance...and I'm fairly certian that DH is not going to want to give out his debit card details over the phone. She then tells me that when I'm ready to comply with the appointment requriements to ring back to the main number and request for an adviser to call to arrange an appointment...great another 10 days wasted!

Maybe this is a sign I really shouldn't be doing this?!?!

    

I only had to provide the NCS fee over the phone, not the full citizenship fee.

Thanks everyone - off for some more paracetemol and liquids and into bed

Why do things just get more and more difficult, Weby?  Does someone sit up all night thinking up ways to torture us all?

They must, though I can see how someone would get discouraged and just give up (as I'm about to) because I have ILR and that's all I really NEED, but I want to do this because after we move back to the US if something happens and we need or want to move back to the UK the pretty red passport will make it SOOOO much easier.

I only had to provide the NCS fee over the phone, not the full citizenship fee.

Thanks for that Sara...I know the fee for the citizenship would go with the application but it would have been nice to be told somewhere along the line that the NCS fee had to be paid over the phone. I didn't come across that anywhere on any website and wasn't told the first, second or third time I spoke to someone on the phone either...just frustrating is all. It doesn't help that my husband is not fond of giving his details over the phone but it has to be done as I can't be without my passport while we're waiting for our US visa application appointment to be scheduled.

My shoulder is really sore for some reason.

Woke up with sinus pain every time I rolled over -- either direction.

DH went for his visa medical appointment today. They screwed up the blood work (i.e. they put another person's name on his sample) and now he has to go back again tomorrow. You'd think for 320 euro they'd get it right the first time! 

DH went for his visa medical appointment today. They screwed up the blood work (i.e. they put another person's name on his sample) and now he has to go back again tomorrow. You'd think for 320 euro they'd get it right the first time! 

I have anxieties like that when it may be our turn!  Hope it gets sorted OK!

One of Mr MLG's old universities told him they now only keep transcripts for the final year only. 

DH went for his visa medical appointment today. They screwed up the blood work (i.e. they put another person's name on his sample) and now he has to go back again tomorrow. You'd think for 320 euro they'd get it right the first time! 

Ya think! I hope that the London Clinic is better organised as DH's appointment is next Wednesday.

I have anxieties like that when it may be our turn!  Hope it gets sorted OK!

Ya think! I hope that the London Clinic is better organised as DH's appointment is next Wednesday.

DH said he saw that his sample had the wrong sticker on it. He pointed it out to the woman at the desk whose typical Irish reply was, 'Oh, it's grand sure. That will be 320 euros please!' Then she ripped up one of the forms. Once he was back to his office he got a call that he needs to go back tomorrow because they screwed up. 

Fortunately we live in Dublin, so it's not a huge deal, but it would be a PITA for most of you headed to London for these appointments!

They changed the rotation of getting off the rig and DH now wont be getting home at 720 like normal on Tuesday but after 9pm which means he will be cabbin it to the pub for Tuesday night pub quiz

Woke up to the sound of some largish toy falling out of my son's bed at 2:45am. Then could not get to sleep again. Now I have a big ol' headache.

People who think it's okay to touch a pregnant woman's stomach.

I didn't even try to cover how completely horrified I was.  What the eff are people thinking?

People who think it's okay to touch a pregnant woman's stomach.

I didn't even try to cover how completely horrified I was.  What the eff are people thinking?

I have never understood that, surely the rule should be that you should be LESS likely to touch someone when they're pregnant as they're more protective of themselves and less comfortable.

If anyone tries to touch my belly, pregnant or not, they get a smack in the mouth