Passport Adventures: Canadian Visa!
Hooray!
After surrendering it at the beginning of the month to a lawyer in Toronto, I FINALLY have my passport back... Complete with my Canadian Visa in it.
Yay!
This is just a temporary one. Once I pass through Immigration in Toronto in May, I then have to give them all this paperwork - which I have to sign in front of them - and put in for my permanent Visa.
I thought immigrating to Canada would be easier. Like, I just fill out a form... Show that having my husband and me in the country would be financially beneficial to Canada (his job is moving there, and I plan to shop in Canada - 'cept for jeans)... And then I would get like a big smiley sticker or something in my passport to show I was "in like sin" with our neighbors to the north.
I was wrong. I had to fill out an ass-load of paperwork. Then get poked and prodded by a creepy doctor in Brookline. Then more paperwork. A surrendering of the passport. And all of this took about seven months to do.
And, a sigh of relief is breathed by me.
"Whew!"
After surrendering it at the beginning of the month to a lawyer in Toronto, I FINALLY have my passport back... Complete with my Canadian Visa in it.
Yay!
This is just a temporary one. Once I pass through Immigration in Toronto in May, I then have to give them all this paperwork - which I have to sign in front of them - and put in for my permanent Visa.
I thought immigrating to Canada would be easier. Like, I just fill out a form... Show that having my husband and me in the country would be financially beneficial to Canada (his job is moving there, and I plan to shop in Canada - 'cept for jeans)... And then I would get like a big smiley sticker or something in my passport to show I was "in like sin" with our neighbors to the north.
I was wrong. I had to fill out an ass-load of paperwork. Then get poked and prodded by a creepy doctor in Brookline. Then more paperwork. A surrendering of the passport. And all of this took about seven months to do.
And, a sigh of relief is breathed by me.
"Whew!"
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Thank you and all the best in your future Canadian life!
natalie
natalie@loonlounge.com
Do they stamp your one visit visa ones you go trough immigration or just scratch it off and make a circle over the "one"?
Thanks!