Sigh. There they go moving threads out of the Canada Forum and into the fray again.

OK Ventings....I am waiting an RFE from VSC...on the positive side I heard some news after 5 months...however still waiting since 11-15 to find out what is needed?! This is the longest wait for a piece of mail from VT, considering how close I am in proximity to VT - - lol - - and why notify me online about the RFE yet not tell me what it is?? - - anywho...still waiting...here is hoping for tomorrow....perhaps a they used a pigeon service??

You are so kidding us, right? You do realize you are in the Canada Forum and we're used to waiting eons for mail delivery? Ah, perspective. It always gives me a good laugh. God I love USPS.

You should coach the Leafs...or the Bills.

With friends like that, who needs enemas?

Now you're thinking. Take a photo of yourself wearing the sweater. Put a note under it, "Here's me wearing my new sweater." You have her sweater, now all you need is some chicken blood, a doll of her and some pins.

.... You look at that sweater, carefully
And you realize that love made you temporarily blind
You've got a secret now, honey, and though you would never sink as low as him you could blab it all over the school if you wanted
The label in that sweater said 100% Acrylic

From "The Sweater" - by Meryn Cadell

Apparently no -oops my bad - - thanks for putting things into perspective for me - - - guess i shall shutty uppy and wait for the good ole USPS......

Ok, I just don't understand what the F is wrong with the Canadian Government. First, they completely botch my immigration. Now, the CRA is auditing (a desk audit of sorts) my husband's 2006 income tax return. They had an issue with him claiming me as a dependent because I didn't have SIN. After responding the basically the same question (Please provide your spouse's SIN and if your spouse doesn't have one, explain why), they issued me a temporary SIN, long after I had moved away but whatever. Then they come back and are questioning the credit he took for rent paid and asked for all 12 month's canceled checks. Fine, my husband goes to the bank and gets his copies at $10/per copy. Submits them and now CRA says some of them are illegible and to provide better copies. WTF, its all the bank had to offer. He has 1 week to get them something else or they throw the entire claim off the return. Naturally, they don't accept the lease or bank statements showing the checks cashed, only copies of the canceled checks. We paid just under $20k that year in rent and I think the CRA should just cease to exist because they don't know their heads from their arses. Or perhaps, let a private company contract their work and perhaps people in the business world can figure something out.

Now, he is self employed and has to have a WSIB (Workers Safety Insurance Board) account to work at a specific job site. He is not required by law to insure himself, but there is no way to get an account number without insuring someone. So, it's actually cheaper to hire a part time employee and insure them to insure himself (based upon his wages). So, he does just that. He calls and calls and calls and requests that a Certificate proving he has an account be faxed to the builder and weeks later, the builder has not received anything. So, finally, after about 1 week of trying to talk to a live person, he is told that they won't fax out the Cert until he makes a payment (this was early Oct). Fine, how much do you want? $400 is the response, just as a down payment for the 3rd quarter. The actual return for the quarter is not due until Oct 31. My husband goes to the bank and makes a payment of $400 and the Cert is issued to the builder within a few days. About a week later, my husband gets a bill from WSIB wanting $3,600. He is like WTF and calls them. They took that $400 as a 10% down payment of some kind and estimated that he must owe the rest and it is all simply made up numbers by the WSIB. This is all prior to the return actually being due. So he explained what had transpired the previous week and the woman still doesn't understand why the $400 doesn't equal a 10% down payment of insurance premiums actually due...He filed his return and is actually owed a refund. Bet he doesn't see that anytime before the world comes to an end.

I am just baffled that Canada is still a surviving entity...

*whew* i feel better.. i think

Well, most countries and most Government offices pretty much get the same rap and the countries keep chugging along in spite of this - lucky that

Yeah yeah, I know. I am just venting. They won't leave me alone!

When I *do* post a topic (which is RARE anymore) I try to remember to put "Keep in Canada Forum" in the title somewheres. Yeah I agree wid ya, I do wish they'd leave our threads alone. *sigh*

Yep!! They just can't leave them alone!!

Ugh. What a horror story. I found myself getting all stressed and ticked off reading that, because I've had my own little encounters with Canada Revenue.

Ugh...I am trying to get my vaccination documentation transferred over to an I-693A..

I am getting prices starting at $295.00 for both myself and my son. So almost 600.00.

All the doctor has to do is transfer stuff over!

What a rip off.

Actually, all you have to do is send them a copy of the vaccination document; you aren't required to submit the I-693a. Since Canadians receive their immunization information before we get the visa, USCIS already has all that information in their file. The request for the I-693a is only there because some consulates allow K-1's to wait and get their vaccinations when they're in the US.

are you sure??

I heard some people sent it and got an RFE.

These doctors are all stupid. They are telling me that I need to get an entire physical again.

Me: "I already had my medical in June"
Lady:"Well you have to get another one"
Me: "No I dont, I just need the information transferred over!"
Lady: "Well we don't do it like that"
Me: "I have already had a physical"
Lady: "It's 300.00 per person would you like an appointment?"
Me: "NO!"

#$Y&@(&#$@Y#$Y(#&$&( $)(#$&(#$(&)#&$(

Did you try telling them that you spoke with USCIS several times to confirm that you do not need the entire physical again because you had yours within the last year?

Yes.

"We don't do it that way here"

Yea way to rip people off.

Yes, I'm sure. I'm among a number of people who did it that way, with no resulting RFE. The RFE's come because some USCIS workers don't know policy & procedure as they should.

Here are your options.
Here's an explanation.

Here's the civil surgeon who will do it for $10:

Dr. L.E. Arnold
4534 Westgate Boulevard, Suite 106
Austin, TX 78745
Tel: (512)444-3131
Fax: (512)447-4699

Well I don't have a choice anyways.

All doctors are telling me they don't just transfer information over.

So I will send this document.

Ok I need to vent about the NVC - again.

As of today they have had our file for 5 months. They have had all required documents since October 9th - almost 6 weeks - and yet they are just sitting on it.

Now I understand they mess things up periodically, it is the nature of the biz. What I don't understand is that when you call to have it escalated to a supervisor it takes 10-15 days for them to even look at it.

Obviously something is wrong here, whomever has our file on their desk has fallen asleep, or wandered off or quit.

I mean reaaaaallllly.

WOW!!!!


its been 5 days now and USPS hasn't delivered my package to me that was coming from 30 MILES AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not that I know anything (1st yr RN student) But I aint going to sign off on another medical procedure (physical) that some one else did, simple as that. I have no clue what is required for the AOS, as I was a CR-1, but I can see why a Dr would not simply transfer over physical results completed by another DR. he didn't do the work, thus he can't sign off on them. Again I'm not sure on what u guys require, I'm just chilling,lol

My Zune stopped working. It won't recharge itself, I have tried every available option and USB port available to me. GRRRRRR. I guess good thing I did pay that $30 for the replacement warranty. Going to march back to Best Buy tomorrow and get me a new one.

I spent 1 hour on the phone with Microsoft and they are tards.

That warranty can be useful at times. Normally I dont buy it, but a few times at bestbuy they offered the warranty to me at a discount price, and just my luck, the MP3 player broke. Was a simple exchange.

I dropped my maid of honor today.

I told her two weeks ago that we were going to be going to look at dresses on Sunday, December 2nd. I chose a Sunday because she said she was always free. I made an appointment and my husbands cousin is coming down too and we were all supposed to meet and go find bridesmaids dresses.

And yesterday I emailed her to remind her and she's like: "Ugh I have to work"

She has made 0 commitment to this entire thing. She has done nothing to help.

She has also hasn't been very supportive. When all that crap happened last week with my brother in law she told me to get a divorce...wtf??

She also said we should do a spa day before the wedding and make my husband's parents foot the bill.

I think she was in this more for herself than me.

I think you made the right decision Friends are supposed to be....well friends. I don't feel like she was supportive of you whatsoever, and in fact reminds me of the bridesmaid Liz was supposed to have...

Yea I read that thread, its awful. You kind of see people's true colours in times like this.

It's sad but true.

OK, vent needed. The FOOOOCKERSSS at Alberta Health Care slammed us yesterday with a 400 bill for services on October 2.- WTFREAKINGFUKKK? We were en route to Seattle that day dammmmmn it. I called our physician (aka Dr. Love) and left him a message as in:

"Hi Dr. Love, this is us [insert Len and Bren saying Hi T.... quite cheerfully]. the ##$% - we think your billing secretary (who was always a b!tch and me thinks had the hots for Bren, the putrid hag) made a mistake, please give us a ring, etc."

now mind you, Dr. Love is Dr. Love for a reason - he is one of those few who goes above and beyond, so i thought I talk to him before writing one of my famously verbose letters to the AHC idiots telling them to grab their bill an shove it where the sun doesn't shine. OK, end of rant.

Lenina, wishing she was less insane (ok, not really.)

So, SSA sent me a letter today basically saying that my visa paperwork doesn't show lawful status, so they can't issue me a card. WTF? They took five weeks to tell me that?

I hate how SSA is basically making me jump through hoops because they're illiterate and can't read the photocopied stuff that they took when I applied. Driving around with my BC DL has made me super paranoid and I'm worried that the five-o is going to pull me over and yell at me.

Seriously, if my I-94 expires while we're trying to fix this fiasco and they tell me I can't get a SSN because of that, I'm going to throw a major fit in the branch. The world is going to feckin' explode.

WTF??

Is that you that had the U-1 visa or whatever written in their computer???

I mean isn't the VALID VISA in your passport superseding (spelling?) what ever was mis-written in their computer?? I mean it's not like its not visual enough, is it ???

Yeah, I was the one who got the lucky Y1 in the SAVE system. Seriously, it's not like my visa is hard to read like Bee's handwriting

I really don't understand how come they cannot take that as a proof.....LIke you cannot prove your status, WTF is that passport for then with the Visa in it ???

I'm honestly just wondering how much more proof they need. You'd think that my visa, I-94, passport and marriage certificate were enough. Do they want my firstborn child or something?

We're going to the branch tomorrow and we're going to ask for a supervisor, hopefully they'll able to do something. Or maybe I'll just have my hopes dashed and I'll be crying into a pint of ice cream tomorrow. I'm so sick of not having my life together because I don't have a SSN

bah, don't be too depressed about it. When I got mine I called back everybody that had asked for it, appartment place, health insurance, etc , and nobody needed it anymore...

Good choice! Is she still invited to the wedding?

WTF? Do go to the office tomorrow Nini and give'em heck. This doesn't make freaking sense.

You'd think what with all the people who work without one...duh...the department that creates SSN would come to your home, take your info, and then hand deliver it to you so that you can work and pay start paying taxes to pay off the exorbitant debt of war ASAP.
What is wrong with them???

Perhaps it's a president who calls himself a Christian but behaves like the Romans??? In any event I support Bush's war of terror.

Patiently waiting for my SSN.

EVERYTHING is making me wait patiently. I AM NOT PATIENT!!!! LOL

yep I told her in the nicest way actually..

I said:

Don't feel obligated to be in this, I know you have a lot on your plate right now. It's okay and I understand. In fact for your own good right now, I think its best you not be in the wedding. You have too much stuff going on, and you need to take care of you...

And I told her I'd still like her to attend as a guest.

Grrrr! The main water line to our office needs to be repaired. So they cut the water off LAST WEDNESDAY (while I was in Washington State) and it is going to be off until they get around to sending out some people to jackhammer through our floors to fix it. This means we have to use the restroom in the office next door. Lovely and all, but there are two problems: (1) it is COLD out, so I have to put on a freaking coat just to go to the loo now, and (2) the people in that office all seem to hide, silently, in their own individual offices in the back. They have a receptionist desk at the front, but no one sits there, and when we walk in and say "Hello? Is anyone here?" no one answers or comes out of hiding the whole time we are in there. This makes me feel a bit like I am sneaking in and tresspassing just to use the toilet. It's really a bit creepy.

And there are still all the leaves in my yard and the endless waiting for my fiance's visa....

But the good news is we have booked a place for our wedding and they are willing to be flexible if we need to push the date back!

Infopass appointment tomorrow at 10.45am in the city.

Nini and Bee are not looking forward to it.

We will be here, expecting the update. if you need some whips, call 1-900-LADYHEATHER.

Hey Len, what are your flowers saying in your av?

Flower 1: "I've never met a gay flower before"
Flower 2: "You've lived a very sheltered life"

now it figures how come no one has accused me of being a gay rights activist.... which I totally am by the way!