hi minku! hope your passport is returned soon!
lovebajan, looking forward to hearing about the safe arrival of your bundle of joy!
As for me, I could just scream. Husband is leaving Nigeria at 3am MST. He gets to the airport and is told he cannot check-in without a UK transit visa. This is complete bullshit, as having COPR from Canada allows him to transit through UK without a visa. He calls me at midnight to find the link and email it to him so he can show the woman. She then tells him it is not transiting because he is not taking the FIRST available flight out of London to Canada. Well, he is taking the first available flight to Edmonton, but she doesn't care, she says he has to transit to anywhere in Canada immediately. WTF? Finally she allows him in, and I fall asleep at 2am, hoping his flight is not delayed.
No such luck. I wake up this morning to find out his flight was delayed 4 hours because the airline was 'trying to find fuel'. Yes, the airline he is travelling on owes so much money to so many companies that the airport was refusing to fuel the plane!
I have gotten word that he is in the air now. Thank God he is out of Nigeria! That country is such a wreck, and it is so sad because it is beautiful with wonderful people who are just getting screwed over and over by corrupt government and corporations.
Now he has to go through the hassle of UK border services, who aren't known to be the friendliest people, if you know what I mean.
I will finally relax a little when he is on the Air Canada flight to Toronto.
Hope all of you are well today!