The Embassy Information Package For Your Fiance Visa Isn't Sent Registered Mail

The biggest problem for most fiancés is getting the information package from the embassy. Due to the vagaries of the Belarusian Post Office, my wife's information package never got to her.

The US embassy does not send the information package by registered mail. They send it by regular post. When the CIS postal employees see that the [Embassy in Thailand]( package is from the US embassy, dollar signs start to appear in their eyes.

They open the package, and when they find out it only has information in it, they toss it into the circular round file. If they are jealous or malicious by nature, they probably figure that there is no reason that your fiancé should have a better life than they have, so there is another reason to toss it into the trash.

Or they simply don't care if it gets where it's supposed to go - no ulterior motives or complicated schemes - just plain incompetence. They are not going to be fired or given a pay raise, so who cares if the mail gets to where it's supposed to go.

After six weeks of calling to the embassy in Warsaw, my fiancé finally got through to an actual employee rather than listening to the omnipresent busy signal. Of course, the US embassy has one phone number and an overworked employee whose job it was to answer the phone.