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Old Aug 24, 2018, 11:40 am
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txaggiemiles
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: TX
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Thanks all I know you were all very concerned with how this turned out.

Basically I didn’t do anything, but we did arrive at the airport 4 hours early. I didn’t bother checkin agents (united) with any backstory just tried checking in. Mine was fine my partner of course has problems.

Agent took the print out of the visa and checked all the information and said something like “that’s weird the name, birthday, passport all match but I can’t get you checked in”. Then he got on the phone. After like 15 minutes of him not really saying anything and us standing off to the side I finally asked him “are you on hold or what are we doing?” He said that he was on hold while “they” called the Australian embassy. About 5 minutes after that he said “ok so we are good?” And hung up the phone. Pressed like 18,000 buttons and then handed us the boarding pass.

No idea. It was a little worrisome there for a bit. But it all worked. I write this from somewhere over the South Pacific.

Will report back if any issues upon landing.
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