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Yeah, sounds tough. Jim and I are a little lucky, because he absolutely despises the UK. He'll miss his grandparents and best friend, but they've always been rather sparse with visits even now, so it won't be like he's leaving behind a job he loves (hates it), or loads of people he sees every day, or parents (hates them, with good reason).

I couldn't imagine leaving here, conversely, and I'm glad I don't have to. Hope the homesickness lessens with time. :)

December 22nd, 2008: Legally wed!

March 16th, 2009: AOS package posted via FedEx

March 18th, 2009: AOS package delivered, signed for by J. Chyba

March 24th, 2009: NOA1

March 25th, 2009: Check cashed

March 27th, 2009: NOA1 in hand

April 3rd, 2009: Case transferred to CSC (YES!)

April 9th, 2009: Biometrics

May 6th, 2009: EAD and AP approval notices sent

May 12th, 2009: AOS Touch

May 13th, 2009: AOS Touch, EAD received

June 18th, 2009: CRIS approval email, card production ordered - yes!

June 18th, 2009: Welcome notice mailed

June 22nd, 2009: Welcome notice received

July 2, 2009: Green card received!

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~Laura and Nick~   5

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I love you stinkers. I know very well those feelings (F)

I love you honey :crying:

Let's Keep the Song Going!!!

CANADA.GIFUS1.GIF

~Laura and Nicholas~

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Met online November 2005 playing City of Heroes

First met in Canada, Sept 22, 2006 <3

September 2006 to March 2008, 11 visits, 5 in Canada, 6 in NJ

Officially Engaged December 24th, 2007!!!

Moved to the U.S. to be with my baby on July 19th, 2008 on a K1 visa!!!!

***10 year green card in hand as of 2/2/2012, loving and living life***

Hmmm maybe we should move back to Canada! lol smile.png

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It sounds like you had a rough weekend Laura. Big hugs to you my dear and hope you're doing much better today. I'm so glad everyone was here for you to support you. Not that I don't support you, but I wasn't on-line for several days!

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And I always look around on this site when I am feeling really down at the people from overseas and around the world and I think:

"Wow I'm lucky I'm not really all that far from home"

Think about it, it really does make me feel better. :)

Donne moi une poptart!

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Hmmm....and for the first time in my life, I finally feel like I'm "home"! All my life (until I met Jim) I wondered why I was where I was, why I was in a "family" that never accepted who I was and why I couldn't ever find that job that I loved. I live in a house that is HOME, with my soulmate, my son, now have an incredible step-son and wonderful dog...the job that I love is around the corner and I've NEVER been happier. What I had known to be "home" I won't ever have to see again or ever have to see the people that I knew as my "family"...biology doesn't mean a thing! I have some wonderful friends that I will see (as they travel a lot) but the one's that can't keep in touch, never really were "friends". I am truly thankful to the angels above me, for leading me to my life path...I wish everyone all the very best and may YOU find peace & comfort in your new homes.

hugz...

jen

effective May 13, 2011 - back in Canada, journey is over

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ah jen, how good for you then to find out that coming here was coming 'home':-). That's great.

“...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?”

.― Lucy Maude Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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ah jen, how good for you then to find out that coming here was coming 'home':-). That's great.

Thank you Kathryn...you're so kind...yup, I'm definitely where I belong!

hugz...

effective May 13, 2011 - back in Canada, journey is over

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Oh, it is so hard when we miss what we are most accustomed too. Everything can seem so strange and different in the USA, I was just getting used to California and we went to Virginia for 17 days to meet my husband's family. It was way different there. One way my family helped with missing Canada when we lived here from 1965 until I moved back to Canada in 1975 was to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving. As it falls earlier than when the American's celebrate Thanksgiving it was a way for us to share a part of our culture with our new friends and it will be for me to celebrate with my new family and friends. My husband hadn't ever eaten a jellied salad until he spent Thanksgiving with us in Canada. Laura, try and infuse some of your Canadian things into your new home and life.

I hope the down feelings pass quickly and are replaced with better days.

Janet

Met online playing pinochle in late Feb or March 2001

Married in San Luis Obispo - July 18, 2008

Sent application CR-1/IR-1 on August 26, 2008 to Chicago lock box

September 4, 2008 - Touch #1

Approval email sent January 5, 2009 after 4 months and 2 days

NVC Journey Begins....

NVC Case officially in AVR - January 13, 2009

DS-3032 / AOS Bill Generated - January 16, 2009

AOS Bill snail mailed - January 24, 2009

Emailed DS-3032 - January 26, 2009

DS-3032 emailed read in NH January 30, 2009

DS-3032 accepted at NVC 0n February 2, 2009 via email

AOS Bill Shows as PAID - February 3, 2009

I-864 Package Generated - March 21, 2009

Mailed I-864 Package - March21, 2009

IV Bill Generated - February 3, 2009

Paid IV Bill - March 6, 2009 - snail mail

IV Bill Show as PAID - March 21, 2009

Mailed IV Package - March 21, 2009

REF - April 1, 2009 - Transfered to a supervisor

Case Completed at NVC - April 7, 2009

Medical completed May 27/09 in Vancouver

Interview Date - June 22 - SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED

POE -Vancouver @ YVR- June 28

Permanent resident card received July 20,2009

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April 2011 started ROC - May 27 biometrics - July 30 received 10 year green card!

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Grey area thread, please leave in CA forum as per moving guide.

Thanks.

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"...My hair's mostly wind,

My eyes filled with grit

My skin's white then brown

My lips chapped and split

I've lain on the prairie and heard grasses sigh

I've stared at the vast open bowl of the sky

I've seen all the castles and faces in clouds

My home is the prairie and for that I am proud…

If You're not from the Prairie, you can't know my soul

You don't know our blizzards; you've not fought our cold

You can't know my mind, nor ever my heart

Unless deep within you there's somehow a part…

A part of these things that I've said that I know,

The wind, sky and earth, the storms and the snow.

Best say that you have - and then we'll be one,

For we will have shared that same blazing sun." - David Bouchard

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Emancipation   2

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Grey area thread, please leave in CA forum as per moving guide.

Thanks.

:unsure:

tee hee.. the mods are watching us CDS.. making sure we're not a bunch of commies I'd say :bonk:

AOS:

2007-02-22: Sent AOS /EAD

2007-03-06 : NOA1 AOS /EAD

2007-03-28: Transferred to CSC

2007-05-17: EAD Card Production Ordered

2007-05-21: I485 Approved

2007-05-24: EAD Card Received

2007-06-01: Green Card Received!!

Removal of Conditions:

2009-02-27: Sent I-751

2009-03-07: NOA I-751

2009-03-31: Biometrics Appt. Hartford

2009-07-21: Touched (first time since biometrics) Perhaps address change?

2009-07-28: Approved at VSC

2009-08-25: Received card in the mail

Naturalization

2012-08-20: Submitted N-400

2013-01-18: Became Citizen

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~Laura and Nick~   5

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Grey area thread, please leave in CA forum as per moving guide.

Thanks.

:unsure:

tee hee.. the mods are watching us CDS.. making sure we're not a bunch of commies I'd say :bonk:

LOL

What the heck was that about??? :blink:

Let's Keep the Song Going!!!

CANADA.GIFUS1.GIF

~Laura and Nicholas~

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Met online November 2005 playing City of Heroes

First met in Canada, Sept 22, 2006 <3

September 2006 to March 2008, 11 visits, 5 in Canada, 6 in NJ

Officially Engaged December 24th, 2007!!!

Moved to the U.S. to be with my baby on July 19th, 2008 on a K1 visa!!!!

***10 year green card in hand as of 2/2/2012, loving and living life***

Hmmm maybe we should move back to Canada! lol smile.png

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