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  1. Crawf33

    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    I'm not sure whether any successful DV lottery selectees from Africa or Europe are following this thread, but I'm looking to interview someone non-Australian for my newspaper column this weekend. If you fit the bill - from a country other than Australia/New Zealand and have already moved to the...
  2. Crawf33

    Dv 2014 Kenyan Selectees report here

    Hi all, I'm an Australian guy who won the lottery in 2014 and has been living in Maine for the past year. I write a column about my own immigration experience for the newspaper I write for. For my column this weekend, I was hoping to look at the experiences of others, particularly those from...
  3. Crawf33

    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    Jeeeeeeeezus. Eight days between interview and flying is cutting it close. I thought mine was hair-raising at 12 days!
  4. Crawf33

    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    Duly noted! It's interesting how much things appear to have changed from last year's lottery to this year's. Thanks! To "celebrate," I finally aggregated a few of the reader questions I received on the blog and through this forum. Thanks for the help @AussieGemma (and others who commented and...
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    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    Are they still scheduling DV interviews for Tuesdays in the second week of the month? I thought of this this afternoon; last year Veterans Day (Nov. 11) was the day before my interview and fell on a Monday, but since the 11th is a Tuesday this year I was curious as to whether the holiday...
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    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    I gave similar advice this time last year. I sat through one extremely loud, awkward interview where the woman scrambled to give details that the interviewing officer didn't ask for, tripped herself up constantly on her entry and exit dates for trips to the U.S. that year, gave overly detailed...
  7. Crawf33

    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    Oh, go right ahead. I'm just collecting questions and answers and will post them all at the end of the week sometime!
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    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    Honestly, I didn't really notice the elevation except for when I was exercising, because obviously breathing heavily in thinner air will mean it takes longer to catch your breath. I think it took me two weeks of running a mile a day to acclimatize, and after that it wasn't much of an issue...
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    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    Does your WordPress back end allow for reblogging of posts, Simon? I wouldn't mind reblogging it in its entirety onto my WordPress site (which would have a redirect to the original article, of course), rather than just copy-pasting it.
  10. Crawf33

    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    Way to go mate. What's the plan from here out?
  11. Crawf33

    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    Obviously this forum is the best place for information on the lottery process and some of the hurdles we all face, but I thought I'd throw in a sneaky plug for my blog again. Every few months I throw open the floor to my readers to see what they want to know, and answer questions they might...
  12. Crawf33

    I can't figure out for the life of me how to PM you, and I didn't want to spam up the "Been...

    I can't figure out for the life of me how to PM you, and I didn't want to spam up the "Been there, done that" thread, but I'd be happy to be the guinea pig! My email address is adrianjcrawford AT gmail DOT com.
  13. Crawf33

    The "been there done that" thread: life in the US after DV

    She hasn't made the move over here yet, but Kiarah's blog American State of Mine has some good stuff about the process for Australians.
  14. Crawf33

    The "been there done that" thread: life in the US after DV

    Oh thanks for the plug Suzie! That's awesome. Happy to answer any questions people have, obviously.
  15. Crawf33

    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    Congrats, that's sensational news! Looking forward to reading your recap.
  16. Crawf33

    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    That's interesting - last year I got the impression that the Auckland Consulate didn't process DV applicants, because there were a number of Kiwis flying to Sydney for their interviews. Do you know if that's a first-time thing Bradley, or has it always been like that? I'd have thought flying...
  17. Crawf33

    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    Well, that didn't take me long. For anyone who's looking for information about any part of the process - from applying to the finer points (good and bad) of moving - I hope I've collected a lot of it right here. Crawfin' USA | Let's take it back to basics
  18. Crawf33

    DV 2015 Oceania winners

    Haha thank you kindly. I haven't been here for awhile because my login details seemed to not work so well, but evidently they're fine now. I'm busy writing a re-introduction post for all those folks who find my blog again, now that lottery season is open!
  19. Crawf33

    2014 DV Australian winners

    I just wrote down the states' initials - CA, NV, NY, WI, FL etc. And I definitely didn't annotate my first trip, which was eight weeks and probably 35 cities haha. Who's got time to write that down!
  20. Crawf33

    2014 DV Australian winners

    Yeah you quoted me before I made the following edit to my post: And also: It means where you went. Again I thought that was fairly self-explanatory. Take a deep breath, I think you're getting yourself worked up and confused. I had done six trips by the time I filled out my DS-230, to around...
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