yes, i've heard about that...but the affidavit of support that our embassy issues doesn't have a red ribbon. It has been the common practice and these affidavits could be scanned and sent by email. I was informed that the Immigration officer demanded the original document with red ribbon coming from here. Imagine the time and money wasted, counting the expense for sending it via courier. I believe that immigration should do some consultation first and at least give lead time or send out memos and circulars to all embassies and have everything adjusted before they start policeing and strictly implementing their new rule.

Isn't it that before any implementation of rules or laws are made into act, there should be due process? Implementing guidelines must be clearly set and enough time, or what we call grace period, is given prior to putting the rule into act? What the immigration back home is doing is like trashing and not recognizing the legal identity of documents issued by our embassy.

I just hope that these issues be taken into consideration back home.