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SO..an update: I signed my firm offee for the Japan location change last week and opted to pay for my travel tickets bc I want to stop by Korea earlier to see my immediate family which they said was okay as long as Im in Okinawa before the 20th of Aug. This being said I need my passports...and better yet my orders. I asked someone who said I could have my passports expedited to me bc i need them to travel. Any one have any insight???

Also do orders usually take forever?...Its been a month since I was cleared etc. and over two months since my passport stuff was recieved. I need to request for moving too and they say i need to upload my orders to schedule.
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haha Don't worry about it. Your situation is very unusual, even for DoDEA. You're in and hopefully everything else will work out the way you want it, eventually.
Jul 9, 2018
someday Jessica email your HR person and ask if they have had a chance to request your orders. I sent a similar email on a Friday and they emailed back saying they requested them and I was emailed the orders on Monday. It doesn't take long to get them.
Jul 9, 2018
HelpOthers Contact your new sponsor to have them help you with hotels.
Jul 9, 2018
Icanread Keep calling hotels! I didn't have a hotel until a week or so before we arrived. The base hotels in Oki can put you on a wait list (we were on the wait list for the Courtney Lodge). Thankfully there are always cancellations. Also, did you find the facebook page - DoDDS teachers living the Okinawa dream?
Jul 10, 2018
HelpOthers You will travel to the Republic of Korea with your tourist passport and use your official passport to travel from there to Japan. Eugenia can have your passports expedited if she agrees there is reason for her to do this by hand. She may not agree.
Jul 12, 2018


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