Quote:
|
Originally Posted by amonkie
Have you gone to the Selective Service's website to see what your options are since you did not register? According to this they can't hold it against you if you can show you did not willfully avoid registering. Might be worth taking your energy into this thread and instead checking this out.
|
Old news. I have already sent in an application for a statement to prove that I am exempt. Beside the point of this thread, but that's alright, this has turned into a slew of off-topic banter that has no purpose other than to tell me I'm an idiot. So please, save it, unless you really are this bored.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Ratman
Sorry, ShaniFaye, but that holds no water for the OP's original complaint- that nobody told him at the time of his immigration FOUR YEARS AGO that if he ever wanted to apply for a federally sponsored student loan he had to register for the selective service because at the time he was 25 years old. He is 30 now, still not married after four years on a K-1 visa, and griping because his adopted country of four years won't give him a pass on a requirement for cheap money for education. After four years in America, if you haven't figured out that the gov't really doesn't care about your convenience, you need an education that no college can provide.
|
1. Why are you still harping about the loan? That isn't the point. Why would an immigration officer tell me about loan requirements? The loan thing is only what brought it to my attention - it's affiliation with the subject matter ended there. One more time: I WAS 25 AT THE TIME. I WAS LEGALLY OBLIGATED TO SIGN UP REGARDLESS OF WHETHER I EVER WENT TO COLLEGE AND APPLIED FOR LOANS OR NOT. Does this finally sink in?
2. Please quote where I stated I wasn't married? Do you think I'd still be allowed to live and work here on a K1 visa if I had not gotten married within the very short time allotment within which after arriving into the country you have to do so? I was married 3 weeks after I came into the country. I've been married for four years, and if I weren't, I'd be long gone.
You can make stuff up and try to paint is ugly as you want. It seems quite normal for people here to assume the worst of anyone they don't know. That's fine, dish it out. Off-topic, on-topic, quoting shit I never said... it's all good. Part of that education college can't provide, I'm sure.
Quote:
|
You HAVE TO have seen that question since you have to answer it. If you didn't follow up on what that meant, YOU dropped the ball on it. When I first applied for a FAFSA loan, I reviewed every last question to make sure I had everything right. Yeah, you probably should've been informed that you had to register when you came here, but once you came across that question on the FAFSA, if you didn't take the time to look into something that could potentially prevent you from getting this loan, you have no one to blame but yourself.
|
I disagree with the "help you" comment, but whatever.
I saw the question, yes, when I filled the application out with my wife, who understands and speaks the language better than I do. I asked her what the hell that was, she said it's for enlisting in the army, click no, you're not enlisting. So I did. Apparently neither of us knew enough about it to know better, and yes, we should have researched it.
And I do assume the blame for not doing so. That's not what I am talking about. People just aren't comprehending what I am pissed about, it's not the loan requirement itself, but if that's what you want to focus on and keep on about, okay. If you refuse to read what I am writing, then the thread serves no purpose.
I am willing to bet that most males, regardless of age, who were born in this country, already knew what the selective service was about before they came across the FAFSA. I was not born here, and I am not using that as an excuse, just making a point of it because I want you to understand why it's easy for me to miss something like that. Where I'm from, you either went to the draft when you turned 18, or the MPs knocked on your door. There was no way for you to not be aware, the military saw to that. It's different here, I get it. You're just supposed to be aware.
I've lost my temper due to unhelpful, inappropriate and off-topic replies, and I apologize for it.