Little shock

After waiting for about an hour, finally it was my turn to be interviewed for visa application at US embassy. Standard questions, standard answers. The interview just lasted for few minutes and I happily proceeded to counter 9 to pay processing fees. That's pretty reasonable since they must had repeated the same questions few ten times for my future colleagues.

So when I returned to counter 6, I was expecting a small card and coming back to collect 2 days later, as everyone else. Suddenly, she started to ask some questions in slight questioning tone.

"Where's your letter of employment?"

"Can you show me where's in the letter that mentions about training in U.S.?"

She took my letters to photocopy. Then she said my application would take about 10 days to process. 10 days? Why not 2 days? But short moment after, I take things as it come, calmly. It didn't seem to be a problem at first thought.

On the way leaving embassy, the more I thought and discussed with friends, the more cloudy I felt. What could be the possible reasons? Definitely it's neither because of company nor my nationality.

I was trying to make up reasons:
i) Perhaps I traveled to Vietnam not long ago?
ii) Perhaps of my passport expiry date?
iii) Perhaps I look like a fundamentalist?

Whichever reason, they could easily asked me for clarification, before allowing me to proceed to pay. Strange. Sometimes logic doesn't apply. And that left me swinging with pendulum of confusion. I recalled that lay wen's friend had faced similar problem and was delayed for quite a while. Some heard of a case that dragged until the training programmed had to be postponed. Oh, no no no... Not wise to continue dwell on this, but I have to mentally prepared for the worst scenario: training to be delayed.

With my passport detained for as long as processing period, I couldn't do medical check-up (which requires passport) and go back Malaysia. It's going to be cloudy.

But one night's sleep should be enough to buffer this little shock. @.@ And shall similar thing happen, I should immediate raise up my alarm level and ask instead, to avoid torture of pendulum.