Kingston,Jamaica

[chickie72]

Saw how active this thread was tonight and thought I'd poke my head in and say hello to all.

Congrats to those with updates I have missed, blessings to everyone waiting their turn in line!

wow Charlie long time no see! where you been hiding? How is your schooling going? Glad you popped in to chat!

 

[Halfmoon]

lol noooooo yours sounder better and was much less mumbo jumbo then mine LOL

Actually the info you provided is very detailed which addresses things most aren't aware of. My message mainly says, your file doesn't go untouched for months on end. LOLOL!!!

 

[chickie72]

He had 2 of his close friend get it done. But they had good advice and knew they wives from previous times they came every summer for 3 years.
I only met my hubby when he left farm on his second work visa and had allready applied refugee but we married before desicion on that and we waited for his desicion to see what would happen.

We didn't pay him any more money after the 4000 he gave for refugee. I talked him into just review the application I had filled out myself and he stamped it as our rep.
He got enough money and gave a silly story for refugee claim and I didnt know about that cause we met after it was started in late 2010.

I asked about the fees because I figured the RPF fee would have been included in it........glad you saved yourself the money and did it yourself.

 

[Halfmoon]

Thanks for always having my back. :-*

Any DHL update for us?

Wish I had an update but no cigar. Next week should be more promising though.

 

[chickie72]

Actually the info you provided is very detailed which addresses things most aren't aware of. My message mainly says, your file doesn't go untouched for months on end. LOLOL!!!

all right all right.......case closed......we both sound good!

 

[Nevaeha]

Wish I had an update but no cigar. Next week should be more promising though.

No later then Valentine's Day....I promise!

 

[Halfmoon]

Saw how active this thread was tonight and thought I'd poke my head in and say hello to all.

Congrats to those with updates I have missed, blessings to everyone waiting their turn in line!

Really good to see you here Charlie. It's been forever.

Since you are here, how long did it take for the Vo to send the passport back to you? I realize it's approx. two weeks but two weeks can't come fast enough!!!

 

[Halfmoon]

No later then Valentine's Day....I promise!

Pinky swear? hehehehe

 

[dlmo77]

We paid the 550 with application and I just sent the 490 yesterday. Now comes the waiting ...will we need ACR? but now I can start saving for that and if we don't need it.... Then It will pay for the plane ticket and a celebration ...one way ticket home !
Can't wait for that day. Landing stories make me cry just reading them on here. I'm sure when its your turn its the most surreal feeling after all this torture waiting

 

[CharlieD10]

wow Charlie long time no see! where you been hiding? How is your schooling going? Glad you popped in to chat!

Hey chickie72! I have been around, not had much chance to catch up with the forum in a while now. I mentioned some time ago that a close family member passed away suddenly, and it has really affected my Mom and Grandma, so in between work, keeping an eye on my husband and just the generalities of life, I have been spending time keeping tabs on them. It is quite a task when one is in Jamaica and the other in the US, but thank God for Skype and long distance phone cards! My Mom was sick at home and my Grandma was in the hospital, so suffice it to say that the start of 2013 has been really challenging for me. They are both doing way better this week, so I am really thankful for that.

School went well, I passed both exams with good marks. I am now qualified to prepare income tax returns in Canada, LOL. Straightforward ones, that is, I am by no means an expert on complex situations. I hope to continue the training to get to that stage later on, though. For now, at least my husband and I don't need to pay anyone to do that for us anymore.

It was 2 weeks, Halfmoon. I submitted it on Apr 3, got it back on Apr 17 or 18, I think.

 

[Nevaeha]

Pinky swear? hehehehe

It will add to your fairytale love story:

"Hubby received his visa on Valentine's Day" or even better,

"Hubby landed in Canada on Valentine's Day".

 

[Halfmoon]

Hey chickie72! I have been around, not had much chance to catch up with the forum in a while now. I mentioned some time ago that a close family member passed away suddenly, and it has really affected my Mom and Grandma, so in between work, keeping an eye on my husband and just the generalities of life, I have been spending time keeping tabs on them. It is quite a task when one is in Jamaica and the other in the US, but thank God for Skype and long distance phone cards! My Mom was sick at home and my Grandma was in the hospital, so suffice it to say that the start of 2013 has been really challenging for me. They are both doing way better this week, so I am really thankful for that.

School went well, I passed both exams with good marks. I am now qualified to prepare income tax returns in Canada, LOL. Straightforward ones, that is, I am by no means an expert on complex situations. I hope to continue the training to get to that stage later on, though. For now, at least my husband and I don't need to pay anyone to do that for us anymore.

It was 2 weeks, Halfmoon. I submitted it on Apr 3, got it back on Apr 17 or 18, I think.

Really sorry to hear about everything. My mind ran on you several times and now happy to see you live and well. You're a smart cookie so you could blast 10 exams if need be. LOL

I'm presuming you dropped off your passport so was it two weeks from the drop off date?

 

[Halfmoon]

It will add to your fairytale love story:

"Hubby received his visa on Valentine's Day" or even better,

"Hubby landed in Canada on Valentine's Day".

Thank you for that. I really hope so too. We're both really excited but trying to stay cool about it. With this process, we figure, we shouldn't get ecstatic until he boards that plane.

 

[Halfmoon]

all right all right.......case closed......we both sound good!

We make a good team - how bout that?

 

[CharlieD10]

Yes, about two weeks from the drop-off date. I just looked back at my stats and see that I got the request Mar 30, so I know I dropped it off the Tues after which was Apr 3 and got it back on Apr 13, so it was actually 10 days later.

You won't believe it until he is there at the airport kissing and hugging you, believe me. It was 2:30 a.m. in the morning when I saw my husband that it was finally real for me that I had landed in Canada, up until then everything had the surreal quality of a dream, even the actual landing in Pearson didn't seem real because he wasn't there.