The Waiting Game Is A Terrible Game

[atethepaint]

Waiting for some bureaucrat to tell me if I'm allowed to live with my wife or not is terrible. Considering I've always had bad luck with bureaucrats, I can't help but worry all day long that maybe the dot on one of my "i"s wasn't round enough, or I didn't use the right shade of black, or maybe the petty tyrant in charge of my application didn't get a coffee this morning....

Being apart from my wife is agonizing! I'm almost tempted to cancel the whole thing and immigrate to Russia!

 

[scylla]

The waiting is definitely hard. But try to look on the bright side. The Moscow office has fast processing times. Be grateful you're not going through an office like Islamabad or Singapore (to name a few)! My heart really goes out to those couples...

 

[British_Bulldog]

Could be worse, you could be apart from your wife AND child, as my partner is. Stay positive. 12 months from now, you'll look back on this period of your life and it will just be a small part of the many happy years you'll have together in Canada.

 

[CharlieD10]

Being apart is hard. Although our relationship started online, it's still hard for me to be apart from my husband. In the year that we have been married, we have been apart more than we have been together.

As someone mentioned, be happy you are going through an office with fairly fast processing times. There are other offices with protracted processing time for spousal cases; our office in Kingston, Jamaica is currently at 16 months average for family class.

You will learn some remarkable coping skills before this journey is over, and as one husband mentioned in the KG thread, these coping skills will carry over into your relationship when you are living together, so there's a silver lining to all this.