Congrats to you too!!!! ...what a great bday present that will be!!!

keep em coming Montreal!!!

Congrats Ron and Sharon. Short notice for sure, MTL is just full of surprises as usual

Good luck, everything will go fine for you

omg@@!!!!!

we're dropping like flies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wooooooo hoooooo

Congrats Good luck

Yay, yay, yay!!! Congrats!

What a crazy friggin' rollercoaster this is!

SOMEONE NEEDS TO UPDATE THE WORD FILE!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

Tinker.... CALL CALL CALL CALL

That's it. Screw what the email said were calling.

I sent Tinker a PM in all caps =)

no words I can put here......@#@$@$@#

see! I was looking out for your bum. =)

According to the person I talked with the letter was mailed last week, I have yet to receive it though.

Congratulation, that is good news, Montreal is full of surprises, they giving you more time to sweat than I got.

even if the letter WAS mailed last week, they expect you to get your act together in 3-5 days ???@#$$%%^

what happened to giving a month's notice!

(watch, you're going to get the letter in the mail the DAY OF the interview)

gee, thx for the tip off montreal..

When it come to getting the date calling is the only way, e-mails are good for other information. Call them as soon as possible. I hope you come back with great information.

All I can say is thank you very much, had I not called today who know what would have happened. You are our life saver.

Okay, what do I do if I missed the interview?

don't think like that yet..

if you find out you did though, freak out on them on the phone tomorrow and demand the NEXT APPOINTMENT

Congratulations Ron and Sharon, I'm so happy you caught it and didn't miss your interview!!

Congratulations Len and Bren as well

The funny thing is that it was on Aug 2, I got the medical documents. Is there a coincidence here or not. They could have told me the interview was tomorrow and I would still have made it there on time. I was hoping for the letter this month and the interview next month, that way I could have planned things but now there is no planning just showing up.

Do you mean you did your medical on Aug 2nd?

I don't think that'd be related then..
And I don't think the Medical office would know when your date was...

(or did you mean something else)

I did the medical on June 7th and due to the Dr's prodding into the very distant past everything was ready and given to me on Aug. 2nd, the same week Montreal mailed the letter a.k. packet 4. I'm originally a September filer and I received my packet 3 in January and was placed on the list around jan or feb but the bitsh of Montreal took me off and placed me back on on April 16th.

wonder why they took you off for that period..
very odd

Ron and Sharon, I'm hoping you were already on the list!!!
I got a splitting headache, but I'm now organized, just have to get the CPIC in my maiden name tomorrow morning.....then call Montreal. I got all the pics together, got all the emails printed, going to print off his cell phone records. Still don't have any phone records for me, cause of the Digital phone from Cogeco.....but I have some cell phone calls. A bill to prove I had the digital phone line..
I'm good.


Liz you call for me.... I'm afraid I'll get too upset if something has happened.

I was tempted to offer too earlier.. cuz I knew you were..

if you're serious, I'll do it..

but I think you should

Wow there is like 3 new pages of crazy posts since I left for work and came home lol. Congrats Ron/Sharon and Len&Bren!!!! Glad to see MTL has finally started moving along. I am so excited for you guys I am pretty much dancing in my chair. (The thought that I still *could* end up with an interview in September is helping too )

I know! it's been an exciting day!

ok tinker i called today...i was a march 22nd packet and they booked me today for septemeber 19 9am so i dont think you missed yours you should be ok...when you call tommorow you will have a septemeber interview for around that time i assume since your packet is 6 days after mine

OMG thank you!!
I hope so.
Thank you guys for everything. Specially that crazy woman running around here.

who you calling crazy?

I didn't name names

I called the Consulate and ask questions re the RCMP check (at that time I didn't know someone had added me to the list) and the bitsh of Montreal chcecked my file and saw I was on the list for a date and proceeded to accuse me of different things and I shot right back that I had no idea I was on the list and she said she took me off and I should call back when everything was completed, knowing how long everything else would take I called on Apr. 16 and was re-instated

As you saw in my previous response I was on and taken of then added on again on Apr. 16 about 3 months later.
I do hope that you get a date Tinker, if it weren't for you I would have missed my appointment completely, I owe you big time and be sure that my prayers will be concentrated on you and your getting a date that is good for you. I hope you get more than th 36 hour they gave me.

ouch, so because you technically hadn't gotten a rcmp check, she took you off the list??

b!tch

Thank you everyone, the good thing is I have been ready for months now, as that is left to do go to the bank and pay the fee then get to Montreal.
I hope to see many more happy people here when I get back.

That's right so be careful of what you ask or tell them. I hope she doesn't do my interview

are you still working?
do you have to quit your job?
what about giving your apt and work notice?

what about packing!

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MONTREAL GIVES YOU TWO DAYS NOTICE!!!
STUPIDOS

Ron and Sharon, thanks *S* and I'm am VERY happy for you guys and that you didn't miss your interview!!

Wasn't Sharon the one that was staying at the Y?

I'm still working but barely, when I told my boss that I was applying for a visa in September they moved me to a very quiet job in December so I could work on what was necessary to get the visa with little or no interruptions. All I have to do here is give them 1 weeks notice, not really necessary as this job was created for me alone and I won't be replaced. The weeks notice is so they can plan a going away and congratulations party.
I don't have to quite the job until I am ready to leave but will do so at least a month in advance since I will be retiring and work the max permissible in the states.
I have to give 70 days notice to the landlord but that is no problem since I don't have to live there during that time just pay the rent, my daughter will be holding the key and will only turn them in when they are due.
AS for packing that is easy since everything that needs to be there is there, all that is left to bring are 2 suitcases, I do have 3 small boxes that will be sent by UPS.
I have been very lucky, I have had my docs together and copied for over three month now, I have been ready forever. As for Montreal, they have tried to short change me but it didn't work, shame on them.

Tinker you deserve much more since without your nudge I would still be waiting for the letter and not have called.
The Sharon you are thinking of is Alan's Sharon, they had their interview just a few days ago, My Sharon is in Wichita at her father's hospital bedside, he is doing better but not yet out of the woods as the doctor said, The past 6 weeks have been heII since he has gone bad to worse to living one minute at a time. My telling her about the interview date was the other silver lining she has been looking for the other was her father's prognosis.

that's so wonderful...

it's so great that you can basically up and leave since everything's ready

I hope you all are right but right now it is very hard to feel optimistic after the email we got. I never dreamed when we started this that I would be spending another Thanksgiving or Christmas without her here. It is just depressing.

Wiz

I have just one question that would help me tomorrow, do I bring the medical documents and the x-rays with me to Montreal or are they only for the AOS portion of thte journey?
thank you in advance for the repy.

You have to bring them, I'm pretty sure..

I was added to the list on April 16, you must have near the same date as I do since you sent yours in on the 13. Hold on to your socks because you never know what will happen or when. As I wrote earlier if you want to know about the interview date call, don't e-mail.

That sucks but if it has to be done it will be done.

You better call tomorrow too!! I can't believe they've done this to Ron, and I HOPE they haven't done it to us.
Edit: YOU sound just like me a couple weeks ago

Ron, I'm so glad you were able to give Sharon something concrete to hold on to, to know you'll be there very soon!!

need someone who's had the inteview and see what they say about the stupid xray

You take the X-ray and the sealed medical envelope with you to MTL. They'll ask for the envelope didn't ask for my X-ray in fact I have it here in the closet

Wow! Are they really already doing the middle of April or did they give you special consideration since you had to wait a few months extra?!! Two days notice?! That's crazy.

I emailed them yesterday and they said my interview date should be coming in the next month or so but they can't make any promises... I'm the end of April but I doubt I entered the waiting list until early/mid May... so I'm still thinking I'll possibly be in October, but I wonder if I could possibly still be in September. It seems Sept is almost filled up though

Does it cost anything to call them?

Hahaha that's what I was thinking when I got home last night, and I didn't even have much time to read it all. It was just like... whoa 3 or 4 people got their interviews... so when's my turn!