Update and VISA

So I found out yesterday that the paperwork for my VISA just arrived at the law firm that is going to handle it for me. I'm mildly perturbed that it took this long for it to get there, especially since it was issued 4/21, I didn't receive or get to sign it until 5/28, and it just got there 6/15... Someone in HR is really doing a bang up job. Anyways ...

I got a call from the law firm telling me that now I have to apply for a VISA issuance number (VICN) and once I have that number I have to leave the country and visit a Korean Embassy in some other country to "apply" for my VISA. This really wouldn't be that big of an issue and I would probably do it around when my passport runs out (90 days) except that my VISA is tied to everything relating to this trip. eg. my pay scale, moving stipend, and all of the items that I tried to move here. I'm not as worried about the financial end of it, but all of my shipped items are currently tied up in customs, and stuck there until I get my VISA passed through. So I'm stuck living out of two suitcases and anything else that I bought up to this point. Slightly annoying...

More so annoying that this one person, who could have passed my paperwork through to me to sign (say by the end of april) and then gotten it out to the law firm (say by the first week of may) could have prevented all of these problems. Annoying, frustrating, and just tired of this international BS.... At least I get to take a trip somewhere on Uncle George Westinghouse now that they messed up. I'm currently trying to work out a trip to San Francisco or Hawaii as a "halfway point" instead of coming home. Oh well, more ariline miles too... I may be around 100,000 by the end of the year now...