Our Journey To The White House - The Final Strike

With two White House tour rejections on our belt, one from a congresswoman and another from a senator, our final hope was at the hands of The Philippine Embassy. A day before we left for the US, we sent all details, our passports, our US address, our marriage certificates, everything. I would've even sent some "oil" for our request to "slide through" if that's what it takes for us to go inside The White House or just to have a final answer. It was messing up our New York plans.

We submitted 2 dates to the embassy, hoping it would increase our chances. As a consequence, we can't plan on that 2 days what we'll do in New York. Everything would depend on the embassy's response.

We were already in New York still blinded by The White House's decision so I emailed the embassy to follow up. I just want the agonizing suspense to end. Here's the response:

Mr. Go,

Good afternoon.

As of today, 17 October, your application for White House tour which was submitted last 11 October 2017, has yet to be approved by the US Department of State.

We will let you know as soon as there is any development regarding this application.

Thank you.

Administrative Section
Philippine Embassy
Washington, D.C. 

And finally, just hours before our planned DC tour we got this email:

Mr. Go,

Good afternoon.

We received a reply from the US Department of State this afternoon regarding your White House tour request.  Unfortunately, we were informed that there are no White House tours on 19 and 20 October 2017.


Administrative Section
Philippine Embassy
Washington, D.C. 

By this time, we were kinda expecting to be denied. Were just happy that the waiting is over. We can now proceed to our DC tour just the same. Only repercussion is that the train ticket prices are already blowing up!