April 15, 2009

• another step closer

  We are one more step closer to The Husband’s immigration application being FINALLY submitted!  We were prepared to put it in today, but when I clicked the button asking how to pay for the application, I found that we could not just send in a bank draft.  We had to either pay on line with a credit card or send away for an official receipt to take to the bank etc etc etc.  Neither of our credit cards have anywhere near the limit that we have to pay out and when I rang the credit card company to make sure that I could just pay what I needed to use to my credit card and then pay the money hungry greedy politians Canadian Gov’t, I found out that I can only use up to my limit per transaction, and then I would have to wait for that transaction was posted to my account before using the next amount.  In short, it was going to take several days to make one payment.

  Anyhow I’ll not go there.  What did end up happening was that after we got everything together, there was one part of the app that we could hand in, so we went to Downtown Calgary with Healthy Weighty Wee Man and Wee Blonde Child in tow.  This was a treat for them because they got to go on the train and in the process of getting to the Harry Hayes Building, we got to see a fire truck leave its station with “lights flashing and sirens going and firemens waving”.  This made HWWM’s day!  There was a big grin on his wee face for the next 30 minutes accompanied by an occasional siren sound (the British one not the North American one though!).  Okay, I am digressing … I’ll get to it!  So we knew that we had to hand in two parts to the Right of Permanent Residency Application for The Husband, but what we found out after waiting for nearly an hour in line, was that we had to wait for Part A to be entered on to the system and showing as entered and being worked on or Part B could be declined!  That would be one expensive lesson, as Part B will be costing a gross amount of money.  Good thing we found this out, because we were about to hand both in together if not for the receipt thingy.

  But while at the Immigration office we did get one of those “Official Receipt” thingys so we don’t have to wait for the ones I ordered to arrive.  So now once again we wait, but this time it seems a good wait.  Now we are not necessarily waiting for a document to arrive so we can get on with this thing that in so many ways feels like it is holding us back.  So God willing, we will have an open work permit for TH by the end of summer/early autumn.

   

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