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YE FUCKIN' HA!!!
that's "Johnston speak" for 20 kinds of awesome. Also, another family-speak is OHBOY OHBOY OHBOY OH BOY!!!.
Why all the excitement? I got a call a little while after I posted earlier today and found out that Graham's Permanent Residency was approved!!!! I spoke to the Assistant at the consultant's office and Graham also got an email from him as well. There seems to have been some confusion on where they were supposed to send the confirmation, however. The AA told me, I think, that at one point it was sent to his old address in the UK, th en they sent it to the Consultant's office but they didn't specifically address him so it got sent back. The suite where the consultant has his office is a large one that rents out office space to quite a few small companies and people so if you don't say who it's going to, the mail people aren't going to know. Anyway, it's being sent back and we'll go in to have a meeting with him to go over some stuff that will have to be done.
Not sure if there are more forms to fill out or just to sign and apparently there's an interview with the Border Control with four questions for it to be officially stamped. Normally, we'd have to make a trip to the nearest Canadian border, which would be the US border next to new Brunswick. It's about a 5 or 6 hour drive from here. Cheaper than flying out and back again though. Anyway, Apparently there's an office that the CIC has in Halifax to do the interviews for people that can't get to the border. Where we don't have a car, I asked if we could do that. I think the questions are just to do with his circumstances such as has he been arrested since he put in the application. That sort of thing. Anyway, we'll go over al that when we talk to the consultant. At the interview, from what I understand, they can remove the visitor visa extension from his passport and later they'll mail him the actual PR card for his wallet. I thought he'd have to send his passport to London and the assisstant said she was surprised as well that it wasn't requested. Perhaps it's changed since the new government went in or the UK has changed how they do it. I'm still worrying about a cock up that will delay things but the important thing is that it IS approved. The rest is just logistics.
So we sent the application in on August 31, 2015 and it was approved at least a few weeks ago when they tried to send the letter to the consultant the first time. That's about 9 months from start to finish so that's pretty good.
Next stop, citizenship! He'll have to wait a few years before he can apply for that but that is his intention.
that's "Johnston speak" for 20 kinds of awesome. Also, another family-speak is OHBOY OHBOY OHBOY OH BOY!!!.
Why all the excitement? I got a call a little while after I posted earlier today and found out that Graham's Permanent Residency was approved!!!! I spoke to the Assistant at the consultant's office and Graham also got an email from him as well. There seems to have been some confusion on where they were supposed to send the confirmation, however. The AA told me, I think, that at one point it was sent to his old address in the UK, th en they sent it to the Consultant's office but they didn't specifically address him so it got sent back. The suite where the consultant has his office is a large one that rents out office space to quite a few small companies and people so if you don't say who it's going to, the mail people aren't going to know. Anyway, it's being sent back and we'll go in to have a meeting with him to go over some stuff that will have to be done.
Not sure if there are more forms to fill out or just to sign and apparently there's an interview with the Border Control with four questions for it to be officially stamped. Normally, we'd have to make a trip to the nearest Canadian border, which would be the US border next to new Brunswick. It's about a 5 or 6 hour drive from here. Cheaper than flying out and back again though. Anyway, Apparently there's an office that the CIC has in Halifax to do the interviews for people that can't get to the border. Where we don't have a car, I asked if we could do that. I think the questions are just to do with his circumstances such as has he been arrested since he put in the application. That sort of thing. Anyway, we'll go over al that when we talk to the consultant. At the interview, from what I understand, they can remove the visitor visa extension from his passport and later they'll mail him the actual PR card for his wallet. I thought he'd have to send his passport to London and the assisstant said she was surprised as well that it wasn't requested. Perhaps it's changed since the new government went in or the UK has changed how they do it. I'm still worrying about a cock up that will delay things but the important thing is that it IS approved. The rest is just logistics.
So we sent the application in on August 31, 2015 and it was approved at least a few weeks ago when they tried to send the letter to the consultant the first time. That's about 9 months from start to finish so that's pretty good.
Next stop, citizenship! He'll have to wait a few years before he can apply for that but that is his intention.