Visa

Well wow this visa process is difficult and annoying and it has not even begun yet. They closed down the LA office so now the only place is new york but you dont have to go down to new york to get the visa and the good news is now there is no online interview. The visa costs 433 $ and you need to pay that before you confirm your biometric scanning ( which is mandatory) I will be paying that in 2 days and going next week sometime to las vegas to do the scan. There is some online paper work to be done before hand but that takes all of ten minutes. I hired a travel agent and on monday we are going to sit down and make sure I have all my paper work (yes theres more) filled out before I go so I can give it to the people when I go down. You need your passport your Birth records transcripts college and high school your immunization records stamped but not notarized bank statements and proof that you can afford to go  which is where i am stressing out after tution paid you need

inner london full course fees  800 pounds for each month under nine total months
outside inner london FCFs 600 pounds < 9 months
IL FCFS 7200 pounds > nine months
OIL FCFs 5400 pounds > nine months

well the issue is I am using financial aid to pay for the trip and I will have plenty of money its that It seems that the UK gov. is making you have that money before you depart I will have half the money on aug 21st and half jan 6th I dont think that will be much of a problem but you never know.

other notes buy a guide book they are really really helpful and about the money I recommend when you go over just to take as much money as you can out at the bank to avoid extra fees what I will do is take my debit card go to a bank and it will be a 3-9$ out of atm and international fee to use the atm and then another 1-3% conversion fee so when I take out 6000 for the first semester  the I would essentially lose out on around 63$ to 189$ so beware of that but the conversion fee is in your native currency for usa it would be in dollars not pounds and also the currency rate is 1usd ~ 1.62 GBP     any way I will update again once i get my visa so end of july beginning of august