We've been waiting for five months to get police clearance from the US. All of the paperwork and medical has been done since October 23 last year, but I haven't been able to send it in because we've been waiting on that one dang thing this whole time. And now it seems the results are lost in the mail (hopefully not, but they said they mailed them three weeks ago and still nothing).
I don't know what to do anymore. I've been living with my husband, but I can't stay here in Canada on a visitor's visa much longer. Since I left the country and came back a few weeks ago, I guess I can apply for an extension and live here on implied status. I've already done that before. But living here without being able to work, and with no health insurance, and the unexpected tax hike from being married-filing-separately, is making me severely depressed.
Even after researching Canadian immigration for a full year before we got married, I had no idea how long, psychologically traumatizing, and expensive the process was going to be. All I want to do is live with my family.