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Dan_from_Surrey said:
Yeah, kind of thin pickings there though. :)
Huh, seems like you should have more meat in your application by now :-X
 

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So I'm a bit cheezed off, if you'll bear with the rant.. I know these are first world problems we are having now, Moose is here, and we are celebrating our anniversary of 6 years in person tonight :D he's payin... haha. He just got an electric scooter which is awesome to buzz around on and we are all good.

The PR card is meant to arrive soon in the mail.. so today Jeep Guy's crunchy cousin delivered the mail and it was a letter for Moose! Yay! But it wasn't a PR card. It was a health card. Except it wasn't a health card - no, they aren't handing out BC care cards anymore. It was a friendly letter to go down to ICBC and get his mugshot taken for his new BC ID card which would function as his care card which would be valid September 1. After some googling we figured out it was no extra cost (whew) so we ran down to ICBC before his work and waited in line with all our documents to get this done with, because who knows how long it will take to mail it to him. However, once we got to the wicket we were told that we could not get a BC ID card without a PR card! This was not mentioned in any paperwork nor on their website. I told the girl that PR cards are taking at least 70 days to arrive and we don't have an avenue of complaint until they are 2 weeks overdue. But no dice, she would not let us apply for a BC ID, aka Care Card without it. Imagine that a person lands on the 25th of August. Their health care will activate in 2 months plus the remainder of the month you land, so November 1st. But according to the ever-increasing time on CIC's website, you won't get your PR card until at least November 2nd if you're lucky. I just have to say it's totally stoopid that we have to wait for the PR card in order to get our care card. If anybody knows an avenue of complaint for this I would love to know. I phoned BC health care and got put on hold for 20 minutes until their call center closed and I was able to leave a long winded message.
 

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They wouldn't accept the COPR?
 

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scos said:
They wouldn't accept the COPR?
Well, we forgot it but the lady said even if we had it she wouldn't accept it. The only document she would accept is a PR card unfortunately.
 

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Steph C said:
Well, we forgot it but the lady said even if we had it she wouldn't accept it. The only document she would accept is a PR card unfortunately.
I don't think it really matters ,,,he can still go to the hospital and get service,,,,but not probably to a doctors office
 

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scos said:
They wouldn't accept the COPR?
Anyways.. I see she's landing soon? Following Tagum's cleaning tips? :D And soon....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY0k7XKEo2s
 

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here we just go to service nb and apply for the health card,,,and they give u a temp #,,,,quess things in BC are A BIT DIFFERENT
 

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Steph C said:
Anyways.. I see she's landing soon? Following Tagum's cleaning tips? :D And soon....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY0k7XKEo2s
YOU MUST BE TAKING OVER FOR scos WITH THE YOUTUBE
 

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Tagum-N.B. said:
I don't think it really matters ,,,he can still go to the hospital and get service,,,,but not probably to a doctors office
True.. I did see a 10 digit number on the letter.. maybe I'm just tired of not having anything to b*tch about :p
 

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Steph C said:
Anyways.. I see she's landing soon? Following Tagum's cleaning tips? :D And soon....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY0k7XKEo2s
iM JUST GOING TO DO A QUICK CLEAN THE DAY B4 SHE ARRIVES,,,AND KILL ALL THE MAGGOTS ON THE MATTRESS,,,,,THROW DOWN SOME BABY POWDER AND VOILA,,,,,,,COMFORT
 

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Steph C said:
True.. I did see a 10 digit number on the letter.. maybe I'm just tired of not having anything to b*tch about :p
A WOMAN THAT DOESNT HAVE ANYTHING TO B!TCH ABOUT,,,,WHERE CAN I BUY 1 OF THEM lol :p :p :p :p
 

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Steph C said:
So I'm a bit cheezed off, if you'll bear with the rant.. I know these are first world problems we are having now, Moose is here, and we are celebrating our anniversary of 6 years in person tonight :D he's payin... haha. He just got an electric scooter which is awesome to buzz around on and we are all good.

The PR card is meant to arrive soon in the mail.. so today Jeep Guy's crunchy cousin delivered the mail and it was a letter for Moose! Yay! But it wasn't a PR card. It was a health card. Except it wasn't a health card - no, they aren't handing out BC care cards anymore. It was a friendly letter to go down to ICBC and get his mugshot taken for his new BC ID card which would function as his care card which would be valid September 1. After some googling we figured out it was no extra cost (whew) so we ran down to ICBC before his work and waited in line with all our documents to get this done with, because who knows how long it will take to mail it to him. However, once we got to the wicket we were told that we could not get a BC ID card without a PR card! This was not mentioned in any paperwork nor on their website. I told the girl that PR cards are taking at least 70 days to arrive and we don't have an avenue of complaint until they are 2 weeks overdue. But no dice, she would not let us apply for a BC ID, aka Care Card without it. Imagine that a person lands on the 25th of August. Their health care will activate in 2 months plus the remainder of the month you land, so November 1st. But according to the ever-increasing time on CIC's website, you won't get your PR card until at least November 2nd if you're lucky. I just have to say it's totally stoopid that we have to wait for the PR card in order to get our care card. If anybody knows an avenue of complaint for this I would love to know. I phoned BC health care and got put on hold for 20 minutes until their call center closed and I was able to leave a long winded message.
I would start with your local MP. That's ridiculous!
 

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MrSki said:
I would start with your local MP. That's ridiculous!
MY LOCAL MP HAS A B!TCH FOR A WIFE TOO,,,,,,, :p :p I QUESS THAT WASNT MY ANSWER TO REPLY TO
 

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MrSki said:
I would start with your local MP. That's ridiculous!
Contacting my MP! What a novel idea.. I guess the problem here is there's 2 different departments, provincial and federal that are not seeing eye to eye. So I will contact both. Thanks Mr Ski!
 

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WOW PAGE 500 COMING UP,,,,,I STILL REMEMBER WHEN THIS FORUM WAS STUCK ON PAGE 60,,,,,,,REMEMBER THE FIGHTS,,,THE BED BUGS,,,,GARGAMEL AND THAT CAT,,,,,THE CRABS (BALL lice EXTINCTION),,,,THE BUSHWACKER500 THAT STEPH USED,,,,,,WHAT A TIME WE HAD ME AND THE CAPTAIN :p :p :p :p DONT FORGET JEEPGUY RUNNING HOME FROM WORK JUST TO KEEP UP WITH THE FAST PACE OF THE POSTINGS