Monday, August 3, 2009

Permanent Residency

Well after a few weeks of hell and I mean HELL we now have permanent residency. Our application went to immigration on Friday 31st July, late afternoon and we received an acknowledgment just after 4.30, and received our acceptance from immigration just after 2 on Monday 3rd August (today), so had it not been for the weekend it would have been less than 24 hours, which is GREAT.

We didn’t think it would be that simple, we had a couple of issues with my and Tom’s medicals, which resulted in a number of extra tests, at a cost, of course, but we thought that the visa would be a lot longer than it has been.

We are just trying to process it all, you know the ... have they made a mistake and tell us tomorrow that the email should have gone to someone else, that is has happened too quickly, that they haven’t really looked at the application, in all honesty it took us a good couple of months to pull everything together, they know all immediate and not quite immediate family members, they have our previous divorce papers, they know all and I mean ALL about our medical history , about Tom, and Mark, so to process it so quickly, part of me thinks they haven’t looked at it properly, so part of me wants to complain and say it should have taken them longer, but then again no ..... just thank you for the visa. Emotions are all over the place at the moment, cannot really explain how we feel, just strange

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