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Awesome! I can travel to the United States now!

Just received this one:

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United States Consulate
National Visa Center
32?Rochester Ave ,
Portsmouth ,?NZ 03301-1500
www.us-green-card-lottery.org?
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This mail confirms you have been selected?on your successful winning in our?U.S.A?Visa?Lottery program.?
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Your visa duration is?(5) years multiple entries to the America , it is renewable upon expiration and it permits you to travel with your family. The visas have been apportioned among six geographic regions with a maximum of seven percent available to persons born in any single country.
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Case number:???????????????????????? 2010107470003399
Preferences Categories:????????? DV DIVERSITY
Foreign State Chargeability:??? THAILAND
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Visa claim application (step 1)
Your visa winning details falls within our Asia/pacific booklet representative office as indicated in the draw system and we have forwarded your winning details to our Asia/Pacific office for the processing of your visa acknowledgement Certificates. Therefore, FOR YOUR VISA FORM, REQUIREMENTS AND FURTHER DETAILS, contact our Asia/pacific consulate center with the below contact details;
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Contact:- Mr. Edward Lwah
Phone:- +66-826-725-057
Fax:- +66 026-5-343-29
Email:??usavisaa1@usa-11.com
Alternative Email: mredwardleah@aol.com
Mailto:-Office Address:Indra Tower suite105, 75/6 wireless road panthumwan-Bangkok Thailand.

Advanced question.

How do I make the claim of my visa?
You will obtain your visa at the U.S Embassy in your country or any U.S Embassy nearest to you with your Visa Acknowledgement Certificates that will be processed and send to you by our Asia- pacific consulate. U. S. embassies and consulates will not be able to provide a list of winners until their? Green Card acknowledgement certificates are processed with their case numbers and placed on the U.S Immigration Network Database.
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Visa?processing fees
Single: ($890)
Dual/Family ($1,420)
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Do not reply back to this notification email (busy)?
Please read and follow all the enclosed instructions very carefully.
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Sincerely yours,
Ms. Christine Thompson.
(Secretary General U.S Consulate)

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Only two questions.
Where is Portland, NZ, and why does it have a US ZIP Code?
Why do I need a visa to travel to the United States when I'm already there?

but but but....now you can travel in your own country

it's all official!

Which explains why I never go anywhere.

I don't have a passport, but I've got a visa..what's wrong with this picture?

I don't have a VISA but I do carry a MasterCard. Will that work?

Here to steal jobs from qualified US citizens! That explains your poor English skills. You living in Saluda with the rest of your hermanos???

A 'processing fee' of $890. Odd, the gov't only charges $131. So much for the efficiency of outsourcing

http://www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_new/visa/niv/fee.html

I really don't know if I agree with Obama's Confederate Re-assimilation and Renewal Entry Policy (CREEP), but I guess I'll just take a wait and see approach to it.

Edit - I'm all about accuracy!

There's no 'P' in 'Sumter', sirrah. I expect y'all to correct your grievous error immediately. We've gone to war over less!

"b", for that matter.

The unpleasantness may just return, if only for DMambo ( I hope).

Specifically his 'Great War / American Empire / Settling Accounts' series. Harry's 'alternate history' speculates on the course of North American history had the South won at Antietam, and spins it all the way through WWII. Confederate leader Jake Featherston's rise to power parallels Adolf Hitler's, but Jake is simultaneously more repulsive and more appealing. Start with "How Few Remain", although Jake doesn't appear until the second book, "American Front".

think twice before coming here. The latest budget is looking oooogly enough to get you stuck here.

Because you asked 3 questions and not2!!!