Dude!
Everything you've described here is an absolute dream.
I waited for over a year to get my visa stuff last time, and I still can't leave the country because it's only half done... in the past I've often had to wait hours and hours and hours for that little 1 minute interview and we stress over the paperwork for months in meticulous detail, and you can never ever be confident that it's going to go well. All my visa stuff has been the most stressful and boring thing ever... The things we do for adventure hey?
Your cavalier attitude to your paperwork is the most foreign thing to me about you... haha.
I know! It was really surprising. I do consider the general level in Finland good, but with something like this, I was expecting far more headache.
I get the sense that the US is a shambles when it comes to anything admin, especially with something like this that is national agency, because the states are also independently organized, setting up for a lot of communication problems between departments. In Finland, there is really only the national level, so it is far easier to manage.
:D :D
I am terrible with this kind of thing! Still, I was expecting to be slapped for it :)