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So I got my approval to work in the United States. That came with a folder a half inch thick worth of supporting evidence that was necessary in order to convince the powers that be. I now need to go see some people and have some poking and prodding before (hopefully) they will issue me with a magical rubber stamped piece of paper in my passport and I can move. At this point, the clock is ticking – it’s likely that I’ll be out of here within two months at this point.

I’ve got a lot of fun ahead of me. I don’t have a US Social Security Number (SSN) and I can’t get one until after I move, but I probably can’t get a US bank account without an SSN either. And nobody really wants to let a house/appartment to you if you don’t have a US bank account… so I asked a friend and got the reply I expected – namely that I’m going to have a month of pain after I move. Figures. I don’t actually expect this to be easy, but I’m hopeful that I won’t get caught up in too much needless paperwork and legal red tape crappiness.

In preparation for the move, I’m moving my mail and other stuff onto machines that aren’t at home. I can’t move stuff onto dmesg and panic directly, because I need some kind of SLA to exist – so those machines are secondarying for me from this point in. Instead, I’ve setup a couple of new virtual machines with linode, Bytemark and so on. Some virtual machines like fremont.jonmasters.org and london.jonmasters.org are in the process of being made ready for this stuff. They’ll then host email and round-robbin on web content.

Jon.

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