I recently got married in Cienfuegos, Cuba. I just found
out that once my Immigration Papers have gone through in
Canada, I will have to forward, to my husband in Cuba, his
papers for Immigration.
FedEx does not deliver to Cuba. Does anyone know of a
courier system that can be used? Are they very expensive?
Any idea of delivery date?
Any help would be "greatly" appreciated.
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Try DHL, understand they have offices there, Best of luck
Try DHL, understand they have offices there, Best of luck
Congratulations Mrs. Kia (fill in the blank)! How was it?
Did everything goes as planned? You don't have to respond
here. If you like, include me in a group e-mail about your
wedding - but I want to hear everything! Maybe you should
put your pictures on the web!?!?! As for your question, DHL
does send stuff. It's about $75 between Havana and NY - not
sure about Canada. Incidentally, I just got notice that my
application for the visa was approved! Although I thought
that I had the visa - apparently, they approved my
'petition' to apply for a fiancee visa. Now, she has to go
to the U.S. interests office and fill out the visa
application - after which, they will stamp her passport with
the visa. OK, enough about me - details, details,
details!!!
Felicidades Kim! I agree with Diago! We are waiting for a
report of the wedding. Hope things went real well for you. I
am sure they did. I hope to be on the list to receive a
complete report of the wedding and about all of the fiestas
following it.
Did you receive my letter with the enclosure? Were you able
to contact my friend Maritza? I am now in Florida, but I
should be back in Georgia by the end of the week.
Congratulations to you, also, Diago. Hope your novia is able
to visit you in New York. Best wishes for success with the
U.S. Interests Section in Havana. My understanding is that
they don't approve many applications. I hope yours is one of
those that they do.
I talked with a friend in Cuba yesterday, and I got the
impression that things are about the same as far as the
tightening of the screws by the authorities. I would love to
hear your thoughts on conditons down there at this time.
Buenas suerte-Hugo
Yeah, I heard DHL operates in Cuba too. But Kia, you're
Canadian, so maybe FedEx Canada, if there is such a thing,
operates a service there too?
Diago, isn't the US Gov. asking you questions about how you
met your Cuban fiancee? I mean surely she didn't travel to
the States first.
Yeah Kia, you were building us all up for this...how was
the ceremony? What was is like?
Very cool.......now I can put a face with the name!!!!
Thanks for the pictures! You two look great together! I
still want to hear details - but I'm sure you still have to
come down from your high! Congratulations once again!
Wayfarer, thanks! Yes, they did ask me how we met. It just
so happened that we met the first time when I accompanied my
godfather to Cuba, where he was getting treatment for
prostate cancer. On a subsequent trip, for the same
purpose, she and I actually got to know one another. And
that's what I told them - just the 'facts'. (wink, wink)
Hello Diago, Hugh & Wayfarer! thanks for your very nice
postings.
The wedding was great ... it was very different, but we all
very much enjoyed ourselves ... and now I'm a Mrs.! When I
got to Cienfuegos on April 12th, we met at the lawyer's
office to pay for the wedding and to sign our papers.
Immediately following that I had a good shot of Cuban rum!!
Lazaro did all the preparations for the wedding .... so for
the rest of the week I enjoyed myself at the resort with my
family and friends.
The wedding was set for 3:00-6:00 p.m., and we had about 100
people invited. It was nothing like our weddings here ...,
but the food, beer, rum were certainly flowing. I don't
remember a thing the laywer said (I was in a daze) ....
but I did manage to say "si" at the right time! Afterwards
we headed back to the Hotel and partied with our family and
friends.
The other uneventful adventure was our trip to Havana to get
our marriage certificate legalized. But it's done.
Anyhow ... Diago and Hugh I did send you an e-mail with some
photo attachments. Let me know if you didn't receive them.
And Wayfarer ... if you send me your e-mail address, I can
forward them to you if you're interested.
Thanks again ... for all your help and support.
p.s. Diago ... "congratulations" and keep me informed.
Kia, please send pic's if you would. Diago, do you still
have my e-mail address by chance that you could possibly
pass on to Kia?
I believe I still have it. Just assume that I do, and I'll
let you know otherwise. Actually, I can just forward the
pictures to you, along with her address.
Congradulations on getting screwed KIA. Your life is
basically fucked. Yeh, I bet Lazaro took care of the
arrangements. You gave him the cash and he spent it. When
will you people ever learn???? As for DIPSHIT DIEGO, I
would have loved to hear your answer about how you met your
Cuban piece of ass. Let me try and guess. You were in a
disco or cruising fifth ave. or the Malecon when this young
black girl dressed in neon pick spandex says "Hola." Since
your such a loser, your dick instantly got hard and you fell
madly in love. Am I close? Kia and DIPSHIT, I could have
saved you both alot of time and effort. Here in D.C. on
streets 15th and K, we have basically the same thing as in
Cuba. Lots of putas and putos just looking to get picked
up. You could have married anyone of them and for a lot
less. However, the good thing about marrying an American
whore is that you dont have to deal with the whole fucking
family. In Cuba, you get not only the whore, but the whole
bloodsucking clan. Lets see how long the love lasts when
you run out of money or a guy/girl with more to offer comes
along. Anyway, best of luck on your new lives. God knows
your gonna need it.
Fuck you wayfarer. (I didnt want to leave anyone out.)
Hello Kia...
Totally ignore pablO...obviously he has never known what
love is.
As for the courier DHL does go to Cuba. The cost is $100
Canadian dollars for under 1 lb.
I too married a WONDERFUL cuban man and am at the last
stage of his emmigration...it is a very long and
frustrating process. email me at golden_sunshine@email.com
and can give you the rundown of all that you need to do.
Be prepared though, the Cuban immigration office will stall
your husband as much and long as possible.
I too have been with my husband a long time before
marriage, I have no regrets whatsoever...
Congratulations!
Although I hate to rain on anybody's parade, the
overwhelming consensus in Toronto, Italy, Germany, etc., is
that these Cubans will stay in love with you until they can
obtain residency outside of Cuba. There are many stories of
Cuban women leaving their yuma husbands and then becoming
jineteras (again). Also, I have seen many foreign women,
particularly anglo-saxon women, get charmed by the Cuban men
only to be hurt down the road--after the Cubano has
achieved residency.
Toronto pays out hundreds of welfare checks to these recent
Cubanos. Good Luck!
pablO (false) you're a very uncreativ person. why aren't you
able to search a name of your own. why the hell you need to
use my name?
just write bilL. or peteR or or or.
it's so easy. why you always need to use my name for you
dirty messages?
pablO (the real)
Sorry pablO but you are going a little too far.He or she may
not be a Jinetero or Jinetera.Who are you to tell???
Will you imply that 11 million peoples are such????
If you have been to Cuba and never met honest peoples...you
have an attitude problem.......
Yes Yuma,many Cubans marry Canadians or foreigners as an
easy way out.
Yes they split ounce they are in a foreign country,but there
are always exceptions and those do not tell their stories.
It is the responsability of the foreigner marrying a Cuban
to find out BEFORE saying YES,what is the Cuban mentality
about marriage and other facts of life in that Country.
Analize pro and con and then,make a choice.The problem is
that many people thinks with their heart and much
below...They forget their head....
Someone turned over the rock again and let the p... run out.
Remember, God loves you pablO. (That sounds good, but I
wonder if He really does???)
Ok, so in every country there is always the ones looking
for an easy way out. But that is not true for all.
As much as that is not true to say all men that leave their
wives don't pay child support.
Or all children when they become teenagers want to kill
others.... That's what people with tunnel vision think.
There is many wonderful relationships that can result from
a union of a Cuban with an American or Canadian woman.
Cuban men are wonderful. And thus, we should not be so
judgemental.
Enough is enough. Stop generalizing.
Bye now.
.....Kia, I don't have Wayfarer's address anymore. Sorry,
it somehow got deleted from my mailbox. Would you mind
sending him the GREAT pictures of you and your new husband.
Oh....by the by......ignore everyone else!
-
Or Wayfarer, if you still have my address - e-mail me and
I'll reply with the pictures.
-
Incidentally, do either one of you have plans for returning
soon?
Kia,
Way to go. It sounds like everything went well. How much
longer before Mr. Kia gets to move to Canada? I hope the
wait isnt too long.
I know that you dont have my email address, but I believe
Hugo does and possibly Wayfarer. If any of you two guys has
pictures I would sure appreciate it if you could foward them
to me.
Anyway, I will be leaving for Cuba next week. So if anyone
needs anything like a letter hand delivered, just let me
know.
Well Kia and everyone else, have a great summer. I will be
in Cuba for the next four months, so I wont be able to hang
around the thorn tree. I will try and send a message or two
from "La Isla Grande" but who knows how that will work out.
Adios,
Fej
I'm usually not this kind of person, but pablO (#10) ...
you're an ASSHOLE! You don't know me, you don't know my
husband, and you don't know the history leading up to my
wedding. WHO in the hell are you? You sound like nothing
but a bloody creep!!!!
Golden Sunshine: thanks for your message ... I'll
definitely be e-mailing you shortly.
Wayfarer: let me know if you would like me to forward the
photos to you.
Diago: I don't think I'll be able to afford another trip.
But, I'm also keeping my eyes & ears open. I might know of
someone going shortly. I'll let you know.
I don't have anyone's e-mail any more...didn't you leave
your's here before Kia?
fej, have a super-duper trip. What's going on on La Isla
Grande? You will be spending all your time there?
I just love hearing great stories that you have all shared
about your Cuban relationships. I too, am involved with a
Cuban man and am planning a trip to Cuba in July for 2 weeks
to stay with his family.
Fej, where are you from and when exactly are you leaving??
I'm wondering if it would be possible for me to send you a
letter to put in the mailbox for me when you get to Cuba????
Can you let me know????
Kia, congratulations on your marriage; you sound very happy
which is all that matters! I would love to see your wedding
pictures if you wouldn't mind sharing them with me (email
listed above).
Diago, can you pls tell me more about this fiancee visa you
are obtaining? Does this mean she can come to visit you
without getting married?? Also, are you in NY? I currently
live in NYC (but am Canadian with a Canadian Passport); Is
it next to impossible to bring my boyfriend here for a
visit????
GoldenSunshine - how are you doing? I'll send you an email
shortly.
Take Care everyone!
I just love hearing great stories that you have all shared
about your Cuban relationships. I too, am involved with a
Cuban man and am planning a trip to Cuba in July for 2 weeks
to stay with his family.
Fej, where are you from and when exactly are you leaving??
I'm wondering if it would be possible for me to send you a
letter to put in the mailbox for me when you get to Cuba????
Can you let me know????
Kia, congratulations on your marriage; you sound very happy
which is all that matters! I would love to see your wedding
pictures if you wouldn't mind sharing them with me (email
listed above).
Diago, can you pls tell me more about this fiancee visa you
are obtaining? Does this mean she can come to visit you
without getting married?? Also, are you in NY? I currently
live in NYC (but am Canadian with a Canadian Passport); Is
it next to impossible to bring my boyfriend here for a
visit????
GoldenSunshine - how are you doing? I'll send you an email
shortly.
Take Care everyone!
Interestingly enough, I have had similar reactions to Pablo
(the fake one), but I've come to realize that he doesn't
mean 99% of what he writes. In fact, he just pops up every
now and then, only to write the most outrageous thing he
can think of. He's like the Jerry Springer of this Thorn
Tree. Once again, don't waste one more second being
annoyed by this clown - that's an order! (smile) He just
can't be taken seriously!
I just picked up the June "Cigar Aficionado" magazine issue
last night at Borders Books. Should be a good read. I'm
glad they outlined the various corona cigars. I'm not a
big cigar smoker, if at all, but I like the corona cigar.
When in Borders, I was also perusing the CD's and came
across the Cubanismo sounds on display. It seems that
everything has Jesus Alemany (I think that was his name
involve) in them. Do you know a good representation, by
him, or other artists that would give me a good intro into
this sound?
I should still have the email address for fej and Wayfarer.
I will check immediately after closing this thread of TT. If
your addresses are here, I will forward the photo of Kim and
Lazaros.
Thanks Kim. The photo is great! Congratulations again. I
would like to send a letter and a birthday greeting to Cuba,
fej, if I can get it to you before your departure.
As for pablO, I think Kia that if we are kind and gentle
and talk softly, we might get pablO to come out of his
shell, open up, and tell us how he really feels. You realize
how difficult it can be for shy people like him to speak out
in public!
So you will be spending the next four months in Cuba, fej?
My God man, next thing you know, they'll be making you an
honorary citizen! Have a great trip and please drink a
couple of Bucanero Negro or Mayabe beer for me. I would ask
for a couple of Mojitos if you would promise not to bill me
for them!!! What the heck, have a couple for me, and I will
pay you when I see you!!!
Saludos to all of the kind folks in this thread. And pablO,
top of the world and a good day to you, hombre.
Wayfarer, I'm not too familiar with stuff by Jesus
Alemany. I have heard him, but I never paid too much
attention. Honestly, I'm still hooked on Buena Vista
Social Club. I think it's a great CD. However, I
think the recent craze over Cuban music has resulted
in some mediocre albums being put out. For Cuban
Music, I tend to stick to Beny More, Pablo Milanes,
Compay Segundo (Buena Vista Social Club), Los Van Van,
NG LaBanda, and a few other random groups. I don't
know if that helps, but that's been my experience.
Some of these recent Cuban compilations just aren't
moving me - but then again, I'm a tough critic.
(smile)
Wayfarer, I'm not too familiar with stuff by Jesus
Alemany. I have heard him, but I never paid too much
attention. Honestly, I'm still hooked on Buena Vista
Social Club. I think it's a great CD. However, I
think the recent craze over Cuban music has resulted
in some mediocre albums being put out. For Cuban
Music, I tend to stick to Beny More, Pablo Milanes,
Compay Segundo (Buena Vista Social Club), Los Van Van,
NG LaBanda, and a few other random groups. I don't
know if that helps, but that's been my experience.
Some of these recent Cuban compilations just aren't
moving me - but then again, I'm a tough critic.
(smile)
That's what I wanted to know Diago...I DON'T want to get
some marginal performer and CD because of a recent craze.
So, is Buena Vista Social Club the name of a group? If so,
do you recommend a certain CD of theirs that would give me
a good intro?
They only had one album that I'm aware of. Any and every
record store will have it. I think the best song on there
is "Chan Chan." Let me know what you think. Hasta Luego.