The annoying thing is we've been here on temporary visas and we're 2 months away from our 4 year maximum visa allowance deadline. If this drags on any longer, I'm going to have to look at a BOWP which is yet more paperwork, more hassle and more expense. And all the time, I'm watching them ship other people in on PRs from other countries who've never even set foot in Canada and who've applied after me...........and let's not forget I've already sat in the EE pool being queue-jumped for 6 months until the OOPNP stream became available.............and that was after the 2014 PR application farce where I applied 2 weeks after they decided to stop accepting applications but didn't tell anyone for 3 months what they'd done and after they'd already returned my first application (before their deadline) because of 1 numerical error on a supporting letter. You couldn't make my story up!
And to add insult to injury, we have 2 Canadian children born since we arrived here (ages 1 and 3) and both on Canadian passports. You'd think Canada would prioritise and want to take care of it's own first? Nope, the fact I have 2 young Canadian children has ZERO importance in the Permanent Residency process for the British parents who look after them.
Don't get me wrong, EVERYBODY deserves a chance to live in Canada but it just feels like it's all out of balance and people already here and contributing to their economy are being largely ignored and processed much slower than everybody else (and I'm talking about the whole Immigration system, not just PR). I know there's a million sob stories out there and it's impossible to have a truly fair system but this has been a really unpleasant experience that's gone on for almost 2 years and a lot of expense for us.
Vent over.........Haha! ;D
