24 days
My interview at the Canadian Embassy in New York City is 24 days away. I'm starting to freak out a bit. I feel like I'm going to be on the trial of my life, even though what I've read online, it's not that horrible. The "Documents List" they gave me in a small wad of papers confuses the hell out of me though. They put something about wanting Letters from previous employers, I'm not sure how relivent that is to family class. I looked on various websites and they made no mention of bringing anything like that, it's only listed under business class. Also, they just stuck in a form about a criminal background check, which I had done already, so.....do I like, have to get another one done, or what? They didn't explain that...:( Even if I do have to get one done again, it wouldn't be back in time (even if I had done it as soon as I got that letter) so not sure what's going to happen there.
I wrote an email to the NYC embassy with my case number and everything. The form only allows for 250 words...so I try to make it as short and to the point as possible. Then I click send, I get a notice saying it may take up to 28 days to answer my email.....*Cries*
I just want to know exactly what pertains to my case and exactly what I should bring....the packet of papers is so confusing. :(
The thing about the previous employers isn't a HUGE deal I guess, but I'm not sure if RCN even exists anymore, let alone who to contact for an official letter....I could get Bev from Aunti Anne's to write a letter from there and Lowes...they're weird, I'm not sure if they will give me something liek that, since I know they said if you use them in a reference for another job literally all they can say is "Vicky worked here." and thats it. They are bound by legal mumbo jumbo because of lawsuits in the US and they are a very large company. Everything is "Will we get sued? " .... People are so sue happy in the US...it's really sad. I really just feel weird about asking them for something that pertains to me so personally, I don't like having my old bosses know about my personal life, I like to keep work (at least with supervisors) un-personal. I do also, have some old pay stubs (hurray for never cleaning out my car ...) to prove I worked at these places though. I guess if I don't get a reply from the question place in time, I could take those. ( I will either way just to be safe.)
Also, I think for more proof, I will be using my blog(s) as reference to the times I visted. (It will help explain how I was able to list the rough estimate of days.) Thank goodness I kept some record of this, I hadn't thought to, but it just happened to work out that I blogged... :)
I wrote an email to the NYC embassy with my case number and everything. The form only allows for 250 words...so I try to make it as short and to the point as possible. Then I click send, I get a notice saying it may take up to 28 days to answer my email.....*Cries*
I just want to know exactly what pertains to my case and exactly what I should bring....the packet of papers is so confusing. :(
The thing about the previous employers isn't a HUGE deal I guess, but I'm not sure if RCN even exists anymore, let alone who to contact for an official letter....I could get Bev from Aunti Anne's to write a letter from there and Lowes...they're weird, I'm not sure if they will give me something liek that, since I know they said if you use them in a reference for another job literally all they can say is "Vicky worked here." and thats it. They are bound by legal mumbo jumbo because of lawsuits in the US and they are a very large company. Everything is "Will we get sued? " .... People are so sue happy in the US...it's really sad. I really just feel weird about asking them for something that pertains to me so personally, I don't like having my old bosses know about my personal life, I like to keep work (at least with supervisors) un-personal. I do also, have some old pay stubs (hurray for never cleaning out my car ...) to prove I worked at these places though. I guess if I don't get a reply from the question place in time, I could take those. ( I will either way just to be safe.)
Also, I think for more proof, I will be using my blog(s) as reference to the times I visted. (It will help explain how I was able to list the rough estimate of days.) Thank goodness I kept some record of this, I hadn't thought to, but it just happened to work out that I blogged... :)