Today, I accepted a great job offer I've been working months to earn so I can continue to live with my fiancé here in Poland. I just found out that my work visa was denied. Now I have to fly home to Canada and reapply before coming back. This takes a month. My new job starts tomorrow. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my mental state went down another 2 levels when after 2 years of unemployment, I finally got offered a great job abroad. However, I probably won't even be able to go because I've reached the point where I'm too broke to even apply to get my passport made. FML
Today, after a year of unemployment due to my industry shutdown, I finally got a job offer. It involves overseas travel. After being cooped up a year, I'm thrilled! My boyfriend's mother is willing to pay my rent and bills for me to stay home. FML
Today, my marriage is one week away. Despite all the challenges we faced during COVID, we powered through everything. Today is also the day my work decided to tell me they're letting me go. I now have to either go on my improvised honeymoon or job hunt. FML
Today, I found out that because we made a mistake and applied for the wrong visa first, my fiancé probably can't fly into America to attend his own wedding. FML
Today, I was told a job offer that would've changed my life had been taken back, due to one part in the onboarding process. I’ve already sold my car, ended the lease to my apartment, and purchased a non refundable plane ticket. With little to no money and the Christmas break coming soon, I feel like I’m going to die with no backup plan. FML
Today, I learned my application for resuming my citizenship in my home country (Australia) after being abroad for almost 12 years is being denied based on bureaucratic bullshit, and I'm going to be sent away to a country (USA), where I have no family or support, to be homeless and without the above. FML
Today, I received a rejection letter from a job I desperately wanted. Yesterday, the job offer I'd been stalling on in while waiting for news about this one expired. FML
Today, I discovered that I needed to reapply for my job in order to have a chance at keeping it. The applications closed yesterday. FML
Today, after waiting well over a month for a work visa in Germany that should only have taken 3 weeks to come through, I finally received my long-awaited answer. Unfortunately, that answer was "We lost your paperwork." FML
Today, after finally getting a job offer after months of unemployment, I found out that the person who was going to hire me got fired. Which means I'm not getting the job. FML
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Top comments
AliMarie 0
Don't apply for a job without a visa. That's just plain dumb. And you can start your job, explain the visa situation, and reapply for one online while in Poland. You only need to fly back to Canada for one day to get your biometrics done. Then you can return to Poland as a visitor or whatever. Your work should give you a month's leeway and if you have a promise of a job a visa should only take 15 days or so once it reaches your homeland's office. YDI for freaking out and posting on FLM instead of doing your research. Stupid people.
MiddleChild08 0
does anyone think this post strongly resembles the plot in The Proposal? Anywho, if it is real, and if you are officially engaged to be married, why didn't you immediately apply for a fiance visa?
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Comments (69)
aymaureen 0
nah man all they do is have a shitton of babies to live here without paying taxes and having pretty much all the rights us TAXPAYING americans have. **** them.
DeMoCraCy 0
Why didn't you see that coming if that job meant everything to you? YDI for not realizing that your visa expired. You should've look at how to prevent the obvious events that may prevent you from attaining your dreams. However, that's something I might forget myself so I sympathize with you (fellow canadian) Hope everything works out! Good luck!
AliMarie 0
Don't apply for a job without a visa. That's just plain dumb. And you can start your job, explain the visa situation, and reapply for one online while in Poland. You only need to fly back to Canada for one day to get your biometrics done. Then you can return to Poland as a visitor or whatever. Your work should give you a month's leeway and if you have a promise of a job a visa should only take 15 days or so once it reaches your homeland's office. YDI for freaking out and posting on FLM instead of doing your research. Stupid people.
BeeSkwaird 0
Kate from Lost (the actress, not the character) did something like this.
birds_fml 7
Why the hell don't you just marry your finance NOW so you won't need a work visa? I mean, come on, seriously? Are you willing to throw away this great job just so you can wait to have your dream wedding? Head down to the courthouse and get married already!
Puolukka 4
Not sure how it works in Poland...but if you marry a country's citizen you usually still require some sort of visa to be allowed to live and stay in that country...my husband is American, we've been married for 2 years, yet I can't just enter the States and say "Hi, I'm staying" and he can't just come to Germany and stay either...either way an immigrant visa is required.
ScaryyMary 14
You forgot Poland! xD
Fmlyf09 0
im polish ahah great girls ther... i got polish passport hehe
happen2me 0
I know how you feel. my passport was stolen in italy on my honeymoon. I had to spend a week in quarantine
11bellacasey 0
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bugmenotmofo 34
well...from an emotional point of view, this sucks for you. from a rational point of my experience view, however, YDI for choosing to emigrate to an ultra-conservative country like poland, in which a big part of the population has problems with non-polish people...
lovemyfml 0
Yea, you can marry legally and have the ceremony when things are cleared up!