It's Official - I'm an extraordinary alien :-)
Thanks to the many great people in the ColdFusion and code gen communities who helped out, I have now been officially classified as an extraordinary alien. Believe it or not, this is actually a *good* thing :-)
I still have to go back to London in December to get the visa and then wait a couple of weeks to get the passport back, but I'll be back in NYC in November to catch up with some clients and then January of next year I'll be able to start making travel plans that don't have to take visa limitations into account :-)
Thanks everyone for all of your help.
how long did it take you to fill out that mountain of paperwork I saw at a wee dram?
Hearty congratulations, our country and the CF community gain by having you here.
@Ciqala, About 6 weeks to pull it together and about two years to do all of the things that it documented!
@Paul, Guess I won't be moving to Vancouver any time soon!
@Lisa, Tnx! I'll be in NYC in November and then back in January. I'll try to finally make it to one of the Flash Coders Wednesday meetings!
You know, you're right. Maybe I should just keep jetting off to Phuket and Kyoto and Sydney and Rio de Janeiro and sending you the trip reports - right?! I'd hate to disappoint you by just hanging out in NYC :-)