Love or Opportunity? Coffee Social

[amikety]

Heh heh.... My new VR came today. I got 13 months and 6 days. Hahahahaha.

 

[Ms Malawi]

Heh heh.... My new VR came today. I got 13 months and 6 days. Hahahahaha.

Only?? What ever can you do in just over 13 months!

Are you sure you enjoy Calgary transit?? I guess the bus world must be very different than the c-train. I don't think I am a huge fan of either.... Then again they both would trump the frustration on the deerfoot!

 

[amikety]

The way the buses rock, it actually lulls me into a semi lucid state of blah. It's like setting my brain to recharge.

Anyway, my husband has a truck, so anything too big to carry home, we get on the weekends together.

So I'm filling out my IMM0008. It asks my current country of residence. I put Canada, put Visitor. Then it asks "other." What is other? "Currently in jail." "Masterminding evil plot to take over the world." Maybe it would make sense if I lived in a country with not safe and safe zones? I'm picking my brain to figure this out.

My husband just finished his forms and is now bragging that he's done before me. Then I handed him the receipt and told him to go pay.

 

[Ms Malawi]

My husband just finished his forms and is now bragging that he's done before me. Then I handed him the receipt and told him to go pay.

I think that is a very fair trade. Since you had sooo many more forms to fill in! Think of all those i's you need to dot and t's you need to cross!

 

[mameelynn]

haha... my husband sat next to me so I could ask him his answers for all of his paperwork but it was me that had to fill them all in! Sad thing is that I had post-it notes for where he needed to sign and he took the post-it's off when he was supposed to have signed them while I was getting everything else all organized the day that we HAD to send them in and we still got all of our paperwork sent back due to him not signing one of the forms... I could have killed him!!!!! When I re-filled in the pages that needed to be re-done and signed I stood next to him to make sure he signed all of them that time!!

 

[Ms Malawi]

When I re-filled in the pages that needed to be re-done and signed I stood next to him to make sure he signed all of them that time!!

Smart woman! I had to do the same with my hubby. It was a week worth of late late nights for me and him giving me his answers and I typed. Then I had to send him all the forms to sign before he couriered them back to me. Quite the process. Which we had to repeat because we forgot to validate the forms. If nothing else its an expensive process to do when there is so much distance involved!

 

[mameelynn]

Smart woman! I had to do the same with my hubby. It was a week worth of late late nights for me and him giving me his answers and I typed. Then I had to send him all the forms to sign before he couriered them back to me. Quite the process. Which we had to repeat because we forgot to validate the forms. If nothing else its an expensive process to do when there is so much distance involved!

how true that is!! Every time we have a new thing to do I just add it to the ever growing pit that is the cost of immigration! The sad thing is that we are still so much better off then if we had tried to deal with American immigration

 

[Kev1n]

how true that is!! Every time we have a new thing to do I just add it to the ever growing pit that is the cost of immigration! The sad thing is that we are still so much better off then if we had tried to deal with American immigration

Oh is the American immigration, bad?

 

[parker24]

Heh heh.... My new VR came today. I got 13 months and 6 days. Hahahahaha.

Frick. That reminds me I gotta get a refund!

 

[amikety]

Smart woman! I had to do the same with my hubby. It was a week worth of late late nights for me and him giving me his answers and I typed. Then I had to send him all the forms to sign before he couriered them back to me. Quite the process. Which we had to repeat because we forgot to validate the forms. If nothing else its an expensive process to do when there is so much distance involved!

Ugh, I would never hold someone's hand that way. It ticks me off my husband can't even FIND his own forms online.

It's like I told him - if you really want to do this, you better do it.

Making me do it isn't a sign of love. It's a sign of laziness. I do not tolerate laziness (anymore)!

 

[mameelynn]

Ugh, I would never hold someone's hand that way. It ticks me off my husband can't even FIND his own forms online.

It's like I told him - if you really want to do this, you better do it.

Making me do it isn't a sign of love. It's a sign of laziness. I do not tolerate laziness (anymore)!

I like your style!! I don't mind filling out the forms for him though as long as he keeps the kids away long enough to get it all filled in! He did type up his own proof of relationship and that kinds of things but with three little ones we had to pick and choose our battles...lol

 

[mameelynn]

Oh is the American immigration, bad?

well there are a lot of hoops to jump through. We had to wait a long time to be able to apply and because of that there would have been a large penalty fee for us to pay. Add on top of that the fact that the US has almost tripled the costs in the last few years it would have been around the $10,000 mark for immigration. You also have to sign an affidavit saying you will never receive government assistance ever until you get citizenship(which I never would have gotten!) Plus there is a chance that I could have been deported and not aloud to re-enter for 3-10 years. Also as crazy as the lists of paperwork are for CIC at least you can go to one main page that shows the check list for what forms you need where as the US site starts you off with one link and at the bottom of that it says "to be filled in conjunction with form 1234" and when you get to the bottom of that one there is another link and it just goes on and on. I think I went through one form to the next for over an hour one day and never got linked back to any of the ones I had already been to!!!! Oh and that is just for your "temporary PR"or "temporary green card" status. You then have to go though most of it all over again 5 years later to get your "PR green card" but to keep PR in the US you have to live in the US for 6 months every year or forfeit your green card and if you ever want to move back down to the US you have to go through the whole process again!

 

[parker24]

well there are a lot of hoops to jump through. We had to wait a long time to be able to apply and because of that there would have been a large penalty fee for us to pay. Add on top of that the fact that the US has almost tripled the costs in the last few years it would have been around the $10,000 mark for immigration. You also have to sign an affidavit saying you will never receive government assistance ever until you get citizenship(which I never would have gotten!) Plus there is a chance that I could have been deported and not aloud to re-enter for 3-10 years. Also as crazy as the lists of paperwork are for CIC at least you can go to one main page that shows the check list for what forms you need where as the US site starts you off with one link and at the bottom of that it says "to be filled in conjunction with form 1234" and when you get to the bottom of that one there is another link and it just goes on and on. I think I went through one form to the next for over an hour one day and never got linked back to any of the ones I had already been to!!!! Oh and that is just for your "temporary PR"or "temporary green card" status. You then have to go though most of it all over again 5 years later to get your "PR green card" but to keep PR in the US you have to live in the US for 6 months every year or forfeit your green card and if you ever want to move back down to the US you have to go through the whole process again!

YIKES

Remind me to never move there. I'd have to go on disability while there annnd pretty sure that's a government funded program haha.

 

[mameelynn]

YIKES

Remind me to never move there. I'd have to go on disability while there annnd pretty sure that's a government funded program haha.

Yeah don't even get me started on the medical system down here....lol
Yeah when it comes down to it we will still be spending less for Canadian immigration, getting our kids Canadian citizenship certificates, passports for all 5 of us, Canadian passports for the kids, move 5000 miles and reestablish ourselves for around the same price as just the immigration to US.....

 

[amikety]

Yeah don't even get me started on the medical system down here....lol
Yeah when it comes down to it we will still be spending less for Canadian immigration, getting our kids Canadian citizenship certificates, passports for all 5 of us, Canadian passports for the kids, move 5000 miles and reestablish ourselves for around the same price as just the immigration to US.....

When I got my chest x-ray for $45 I about passed out. An x-ray for $45?!?!?!?! That's a few hundred bucks easy in the US!