So I applied for two years of language school starting in April and was accepted Feb 20th! The school required an international wire transfer to pay tuition in order to send me the official COE. Because I had to transfer funds to an acct that would allow me to do international transfers, I was only able to send the funds on 2/25. I did however purchase a flight for March 17th as I was advised to arrive in mid March.
So where the issue starts is that my bank only allowed up to 35 Characters for recipient name, so I did what I thought was perfectly logical which is to abbreviate the name. In an ever delayed email chain because of the 14 hours of time difference, I was finally told Thursday that the bank has not released the funds to the school because of a mismatch in recipient name and that I needed to change it. So as soon as I could, I had my bank send an amendment of the recipient name which I receive confirmation of Saturday night. It is now Wednesday and the funds have not been released to the school and I have not received my COE, the consulate in my area is very busy and now we’re approaching a timeline that possibly means I won’t get my visa on time for departure. The only instruction I’ve gotten from my proxy/sponsor/application guidance in Japan is to simply wait but I can’t get housing locked down without COE, cannot ask for appointment at the Japanese Consulate without the COE.
Overall, I’m just very worried about the situation am looking for some advice or someone with experience with this stuff to convince me im not screwed.
by pinzon