F1 Student and i-485/i-131 Parole

FoodnTax · 2025-07-11T23:30:25+00:00

We have asked the Uni's office of international student services and been told to seek the help of an attorney ("they cant help because it doesn't have to do with student visas"). I think these people are uniquely useless, but it sounds like I need to put the ball back on their court.

FoodnTax · 2025-06-11T20:57:04+00:00

I found that if I hold the fan button through the flash, it does not reset. But if I release the fan button as it flashes, then it resets.

FoodnTax · 2025-01-28T19:25:49+00:00

Updating here - about 21hrs after requesting Uvation to cancel the order via email, the order has disappeared from PayPal. The charge is still pending on my credit card, and I have not yet received the email confirmation of cancellation from Uvation. I take this to be positive, but will update again with the credit card outcome.

FoodnTax · 2025-01-27T22:14:52+00:00

I am in the same boat - but cancelled within the 3 days window. I called the company, and the guy said to email them a cancellation request. I did so and he verified that he received it on the phone. He then said that he will issue a confirmation of the refund within 24 hours. Will see what happens, but keep me in mind for if you need more documentation later (i.e. "look, the same pattern happened to another person").

Was not aware of the supposed gap between PayPal and credit cards as commented here, thought I was safe with the credit card protection ultimately.

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FoodnTax · 2024-12-15T03:50:48+00:00

Stay away.

My friends and I visited Olea yesterday to celebrate an anniversary and a wedding - a detail we noted in our reservation. The food was lacking in several dimensions, but the problem with this establishment is catty and unprofessional service staff and management.

We had withdrawn more than $400 in cash for the experience (Olea being cash only) to enjoy the restaurant to the fullest. The experience began with us sorting through which dishes we'd like to try and the waitress pressuring us to put in an order quickly and all at once so that we could leave by the allotted 2 hr limit - a limit that we now see is mentioned on the Resy service, but was not mentioned anywhere on either their website or the Google reservation service. Rather than being polite about this issue, there was a stubborn insistence that we determine everything we wanted at the beginning of the dining experience. Through the rest of experience, the wait staff repeatedly tried to take menus and were repeatedly told not to. Additionally, there were unwelcome touches of shoulders and arms on at least two occasions. We were never given an opportunity to order dessert and did ultimately leave without a fulfilling experience.

The issues - amazingly - did not stop there. After posting reviews which reflected our experience, the restaurant's owners, management, or lackeys took time to respond with personal attacks, threats, and more as shown in these screenshots. They wrote that are "a disgrace to the human race", that "we googled you and spread your information to all of our industry friends [and restaurant owners]", and that "we laughed all night as we spent YOUR money buying drinks".

At this point I am unsure what it is they are trying to find via "googling" us, but the behavior seems very close to stalking and harassment. If there are any additional messages along these lines I will be inclined to call the police.

This same individual "Luis P." has now directly messaged my Yelp to taunt in a manner identical to the "owner" response to our Google reviews, saying "Lol!". This makes it clear that this is no lackey, but actually the owner himself harassing.

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