hikergirl

Yea I know...maybe I'll tell him I'm taking him to see a wwII battlefield, then divert the trip to Poland... ...

My daughter did a WWII tour of Europe.

Started in Berlin, then to Czech Republic, Poland & Austria.

There are places to see in Poland. i.e. Auschwitz

Mine weren’t sealed…just in a plain manila envelope. You are fine to open it and scan.

The only things you cannot look at are the medical envelope and the one from the Consulate for POE.

I don't wanna be in a club because of where I was born... Unless it's the Canadian Drinking Club. Lol

Did you see the Molson Canadian video where they parked beer fridges in spots in Europe that could only be opened by a Canadian Passport?

They need those at events down in the US for us

Kitty is not unhappy with me. To show my remorse for making her suffer that indignity, I fed her some of her wet food which she LOVES.

Be back in a minute. Going to go brush Ginger’s teeth with her kitty toothbrush and kitty “vanilla mint” toothpaste.

Then she won't want to cuddle with me for a whole half hour or so while she sulks.

I have to because The Mean Lady was glaring at me. I know her eyes were telling me to take care of kitty teeth.

I am so confused.

Also someone dressed as the Eiffel Tower sounds relatively tame for Chicago.

Wait, can I be a CABA? *innocent eyes* Sounds like a fun little club. I think.

well if you are British or American you are automatically part of the club...

Woot another member of our illustrious club! Welcome!

I’m very happy to see movement in the Atlanta thread. It’s about time!

Since the petition never made it to the embassy there is no notice of intent to return or deny. There is a fundamental flaw with the petition that means it can't even move to the embassy stage for them to review evidences.

We received a NOID prior to the local office approving my husband’s petition for me.

We had 30 days to give them what they were asking for.

Sent it in and had our approval 2 1/2 months later.

BoatMan - after reading post #1 - I have to say - I am sorry. I'll catch up elsewhere.

What? But I love the girls and I’ll miss seeing their cute little faces when you chat with us.

Btw, what is CABA?

I’ve been wondering that myself. They refer to us Canadian girls as that. But I don’t know how it started or where it came from.

WOOT!

I was starting to worry for us both.

I have two petitions is why I have two packages (CR-1 and CR-2).

To me it looks like your package has been opened.

I think yours should have the second seal like mine do.

I would contact the Embassy to see what’s up.

I just looked at our packages and both of them have been opened and resealed.

Ours have the original Consulate seal then someones initials and a second Consulate seal that is unbroken. Both packages have tape to seal the envelope.

Does yours have a second seal?

Well it was Canada day on Monday so Montreal was closed. Independance day tomorrow so Montreal will be closed. That leaves 3 days this week for them to work? LOL!!!!! Best try your luck next week!

And they had St Jean Baptiste day off on the 24th of Jun. They may be 3 days behind...

I always put ketchup on my hotdog...

I think every Canadian puts ketchup on their hotdogs.

Love me my ketchup.

I had authentic Mexican food once at a place in Downtown Disney. I had shredded pork on a tortilla, if I remember right and a yummy rice drink (horchata?).

You will need a valid passport for your NVC stage which could take 6 months.

File now, order your new passport and you will have it ready for the NVC stage.

I’m curious as well being that I’ll POE in a week and a bit!

Anyone still here that has already POE’d and paid with ELIS?

Excellent news! Let’s hope they keep the approvals coming!

after nearly 10 months, APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Congratulations!

Time to celebrate and join the NVC July filer thread!

The first 2 posts by Saylin will give you lots of study material for your next step.

I had my interview on a Wednesday and it was in Lethbridge on the Friday.

I would like to add just one thing.

When making posts on VJ it’s important to note that many on here do not speak English as their first language. They don’t understand the subtleties and intricacies involved in theoretical arguments. It’s not really fair to them to put stuff on here that is not practical & sound advice.

This process is confusing and expensive enough as it is.

Yay! It’s nice to hear good news

Happy Canada Day!

One of the reasons we chose the CR-1 path is because we wanted to be living together once my daughter graduated high school. Being married when she was 17 (instead of 18 with the K-1) gave her more choices over what she wanted to do/where she wanted to live in her early adulthood.

Also we felt financially the CR-1 was way better than the K-1.

We’ve rented a U-Haul for our move to SC from AB.

Just to let everyone know, we were approved for our CR-1/CR-2 Visas.

The Montréal Consulate only took 2 days to courier the passports with Visas in back to us in S. Alberta.

The celebratory dinner was Montréal Smoked Meat Sandwiches and Poutine.