End of the road

[RobertBfrom aust]

A great lot of photos Gerry , out here it is 37 C , but in Shenyang they have had a large dump of snow today and it is -2 C , so Sujuan is stuck in the apartment , waiting to go to her Mums house who is moving houses next week , regards Sujuan and Robert .

[Willy The Londoner]

Gerry you have created a whole new meaning for the phrase ' Honey! Shall we spend some time on the table?'

Mind you I would be proud to have created such an item.

Willy

[Pineau]

My step daughter just got approved.  2.5 months. 

[RobertBfrom aust]

That was nice and speedy Gerry , what , have the paper shuflers finally got their collective fingers out , regards Sujuan and Robert .

[Pineau]

I wish I had figured this out before.
I have a lot of my facebook photos stored at photobucket.
I could have dispensed with all the resizing and reformatting and just posted a link.. duh !

 http://s1283.photobucket.com/user/Gpineau/library/Facebook/450152228356341?page=1
and here is my desktop wallpaper. size it to fill the screen.
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a545/Gpineau/Pretty%20Girls/WindowsPhotoViewerWallpaper_zps02bbf5f1.jpg

if it asks for a password it is chinalove

[Pineau]

I didn't realize I had marked all the photos as private.  Sorry

The user interface on Photobucket is a little convoluted but you can get there if you click enough links.
Click on show albums.
Click on facebook.

http://s1283.photobucket.com/user/Gpineau/library/Facebook

[Pineau]

The AOS processing fee has been cashed.
Now time for the immigration application fee. another $230.00
Then submit the immigration application.
Then submit the AOS.
Then wait for the interview.

Any guess on how much longer this is going to take?

[Rhonald]

Any guess on how much longer this is going to take?

Just hold on a sec and I will get back to you with my answer okay.

[Robertt S]

The AOS processing fee has been cashed.
Now time for the immigration application fee. another $230.00
Then submit the immigration application.
Then submit the AOS.
Then wait for the interview.

Any guess on how much longer this is going to take?

You will need to submit the Affidavit of Support first, then pay the IV fee after you receive the invoice for the IV fee. If you opted-in to the electronic processing then you can be in and out of NVC in 2-4 weeks and the interview is usually scheduled for about 25-45 days after the case is closed at NVC and forwarded to the State Dept.

[Pineau]

Well someone there got ahead of themselves. I already have the invoice for the immigration visa. (230)... but I have not mailed the immigration applications (which they asked for in the AOS receipt). Neither have I mailed the AOS .  So I guess I had better get busy and get the AOS ready, mail the fees and the IV application.  Maybe all at the same time. !

[Robertt S]

I was just going by what was posted.     Don't forget the coversheets and receipt pages!  Have you considered using the Electronic processing?  Would save you some time!

[Pineau]

This is a serious question. Why cant we upload files and photos of any size. It is a real pain in the ass to have to rescale photos just for this website.

[Robertt S]

I usually don't have any problem posting photos here. Are you talking about here in the forum or in the Media Albums at the top of the page?

[Neil]

Jerry, we had this discussion before, I'm pretty sure. 

The bigger the file, the longer it takes to send/receive and the more space it takes to store.  Bandwidth costs money, and once a website surpasses certain bandwidth limits, the costs rise, quite sharply I believe.  This is a free site, so the owners have to set some limits.  When someone else views images that have been uploaded, those images also count toward bandwidth limits. 

Sites like photobucket are great.  Free storage, and the links that you post to images use photobucket's bandwidth, not this site's bandwidth. 

[Pineau]

Robertt, I am talking about right here as attachments to our posts. the norm now days is 10-15 megapixels for your run of the mill camera. If you try to post one of those you will fail. You must rescale it to a smaller size or it will fail to upload.

Neil, yes we have had this discussion before and I was never satisfied with the outcome. You have provided more information in this short response than I have seen before.

Storage space should not be an issue. Since I joined the forum the size of hard drives have quadrupled and the price has dropped in half.

So the only issue left is bandwidth which I agree cost money to move the files across the net but I don't agree that we are about to choke the internet with the few hits we get from photos attachments. I rarely see more than 10 users on the forum at any one time and I doubt that they are all looking at high bandwidth photos. I suppose that in the end someone is paying for the bandwidth and if thy say we have a limit then we must comply. Photobucket is a less desirable solution but it will work.