US government shutdown. How it affects us.
09:11 10.10.2013
US government shutdown. How it affects us.
Generally almost doesn't affect. I've heard that the federal parks are closed, but in California there are a lot of State parks, so we had no problems even during our Sonoma week-end. But the plans of our Swiss friend who planned a camping week in some other part of the country were interrupted. Indeed, many of the parks they were planning to visit were (are, they are still travelling) closed.
I called to USCIS and they confirmed that none of their business are affected and all the cases will be processed as usual. These are great news for me.
At the same time a new Russian friend who just came several weeks ago told that Social Security Administration is not issuing now new Social Security Cards. But, again, I luckily succeeded to get one couple of weeks ago.
So for us personally there are no consequences so far.
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US government shutdown. How it affects us.
Generally almost doesn't affect. I've heard that the federal parks are closed, but in California there are a lot of State parks, so we had no problems even during our Sonoma week-end. But the plans of our Swiss friend who planned a camping week in some other part of the country were interrupted. Indeed, many of the parks they were planning to visit were (are, they are still travelling) closed.
I called to USCIS and they confirmed that none of their business are affected and all the cases will be processed as usual. These are great news for me.
At the same time a new Russian friend who just came several weeks ago told that Social Security Administration is not issuing now new Social Security Cards. But, again, I luckily succeeded to get one couple of weeks ago.
So for us personally there are no consequences so far.
read more at Augenblick
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