Eepiddy-Bleepiddy Government!
No news is good news, eh?
So what possessed me to call up immigration this morning?! It was all smooth sailing after my last conversation with them. Things were well on their way, and then this morning the sky fell.
If anyone reading this knows someone who works for CIC, please let me know. I'd love to talk to them. Preferably to call them at home while they're eating dinner.
So here's the thing: they tell you on their blasted website that if you do everything they ask before you send in the application, then it will all go faster and cut 3-4 months off your processing time. So we did. Medical exam, police certificate, paid the fees, all the bells and whistles, done by August. And today I find out I have to do ANOTHER medical exam, because I should have waited until now to do it because almost everyone has to do it twice because it takes so stupid long to process an application that should be in and out in fifteen minutes or less. How about it's right or it's free? I get better service from the pizza man, and they charge 1% of what the socialists at immigration do. And pizza tastes better. And you can have it the next day for breakfast. They also neglected to tell me earlier that I needed a police certificate from the FBI. I could have done that months ago. (Like the first time I got fingerprinted.) That, at least, won't expire.
What I really don't understand here is why is it taking so long?! And what has changed on my medical exam? Have I suddenly developed HIV and/or tuberculosis after eleven months of living here? Doesn't that say more about Canada than the people they let in? Where do we get the money for another exam/chest X-ray/blood tests?
Forgive us, I'm extremely upset at the moment. Please pray for us.....
* That the FBI will process my background check speedily and it will arrive here very soon (tomorrow is great)
* That my work visa will arrive also tomorrow/ASAP
* That we won't lose hope
More when we know more.....
So what possessed me to call up immigration this morning?! It was all smooth sailing after my last conversation with them. Things were well on their way, and then this morning the sky fell.
If anyone reading this knows someone who works for CIC, please let me know. I'd love to talk to them. Preferably to call them at home while they're eating dinner.
So here's the thing: they tell you on their blasted website that if you do everything they ask before you send in the application, then it will all go faster and cut 3-4 months off your processing time. So we did. Medical exam, police certificate, paid the fees, all the bells and whistles, done by August. And today I find out I have to do ANOTHER medical exam, because I should have waited until now to do it because almost everyone has to do it twice because it takes so stupid long to process an application that should be in and out in fifteen minutes or less. How about it's right or it's free? I get better service from the pizza man, and they charge 1% of what the socialists at immigration do. And pizza tastes better. And you can have it the next day for breakfast. They also neglected to tell me earlier that I needed a police certificate from the FBI. I could have done that months ago. (Like the first time I got fingerprinted.) That, at least, won't expire.
What I really don't understand here is why is it taking so long?! And what has changed on my medical exam? Have I suddenly developed HIV and/or tuberculosis after eleven months of living here? Doesn't that say more about Canada than the people they let in? Where do we get the money for another exam/chest X-ray/blood tests?
Forgive us, I'm extremely upset at the moment. Please pray for us.....
* That the FBI will process my background check speedily and it will arrive here very soon (tomorrow is great)
* That my work visa will arrive also tomorrow/ASAP
* That we won't lose hope
More when we know more.....
posted by Judy Baskerville at
10:46 AM
1 Comments:
Judy
So sorry to hear you are having such struggles with immigration! I wish I could say that this was unusual but I've heard hundreds of stories to the contrary. When adopting internationally the Canadian Goverment clears you to adopt, then you have to apply to immigration to bring your baby home and then once home you have to endure the citizenship paper chase. I think in theory it is all suppose to work smoothly but then you throw reality in and it is usually a tremendously frustrating process.
But be encouraged because it always gets settled in the end! It just generally takes a ridiculous amount of "teeth pulling" to get it.
Bless your day!
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corena, at 11:05 AM, May 02, 2006
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