I have some friends who are refugees from Liberia. They have been here for nearly 4 years. Sophie tells me I am her light skinned sister who was put here by God to help her family. I have been very involved in helping over the years and continue to do so - through the good times and the bad.
One of her daughters was in Young Women's with me when they were in the ward. She went to camp with us for 2 years. She is now 16 and working at Wendy's at the airport. The problem is that she has lost her I-94 card. That is a VERY IMPORTANT piece of paper!! With her new job she needs to get an ID card to get into the airport and to her workplace. She can't get the ID without the I-94. If she doesn't have the ID card security has to escort her to her job. So when she told me about her problem I got on the computer to see what could be done. Everyplace I looked I found the solution - it was this: You fill out an application for a replacement I-94 and pay $320 and in a short 3 months you might have the replacement. When I told her about it she was sure there was another solution because her boss told her so. Actually she called him and then had him talk to me about it. He thought there was something else easy and fast - blah, blah, blah. It was obvious to me that he hadn't dealt too much with the government - especially with immigration and refugee stuff. So her boss encouraged her to get an appointment with the Immigration office to see if they could just give her a copy. So even though I was sure there wasn't an easy answer, Gueron is my friend, and she was determined that if she asked nicely and smiled a lot that she might get some help.
We went down there one morning with a scheduled appointment. Surprisingly we only had to wait about 5 minutes before they called us to the window. She sheepishly told the lady that she lost her I-94 and that she needed another one. So the lady pulls out a packet of papers that she needed to fill out and then mail in - ALONG WITH $320 AND WAIT FOR ABOUT 3 MONTHS FOR IT TO BE PROCESSED. Hummmmm that sounds like something I said a week or so ago. But she didn't believe me - NNNOOOOOO!!
The funny thing is that she asked this stern uniformed Immigration Officer if she would just write a note to her boss and tell him that she had an I-94 form and that it is now lost. The officer's response to that, "No, I can't give you anything!"
So there you go - I had the answer to the $320 question all along. Yea, me!
One of her daughters was in Young Women's with me when they were in the ward. She went to camp with us for 2 years. She is now 16 and working at Wendy's at the airport. The problem is that she has lost her I-94 card. That is a VERY IMPORTANT piece of paper!! With her new job she needs to get an ID card to get into the airport and to her workplace. She can't get the ID without the I-94. If she doesn't have the ID card security has to escort her to her job. So when she told me about her problem I got on the computer to see what could be done. Everyplace I looked I found the solution - it was this: You fill out an application for a replacement I-94 and pay $320 and in a short 3 months you might have the replacement. When I told her about it she was sure there was another solution because her boss told her so. Actually she called him and then had him talk to me about it. He thought there was something else easy and fast - blah, blah, blah. It was obvious to me that he hadn't dealt too much with the government - especially with immigration and refugee stuff. So her boss encouraged her to get an appointment with the Immigration office to see if they could just give her a copy. So even though I was sure there wasn't an easy answer, Gueron is my friend, and she was determined that if she asked nicely and smiled a lot that she might get some help.
We went down there one morning with a scheduled appointment. Surprisingly we only had to wait about 5 minutes before they called us to the window. She sheepishly told the lady that she lost her I-94 and that she needed another one. So the lady pulls out a packet of papers that she needed to fill out and then mail in - ALONG WITH $320 AND WAIT FOR ABOUT 3 MONTHS FOR IT TO BE PROCESSED. Hummmmm that sounds like something I said a week or so ago. But she didn't believe me - NNNOOOOOO!!
The funny thing is that she asked this stern uniformed Immigration Officer if she would just write a note to her boss and tell him that she had an I-94 form and that it is now lost. The officer's response to that, "No, I can't give you anything!"
So there you go - I had the answer to the $320 question all along. Yea, me!
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