Knobby_Wheezer

It makes me both happy and sad to think about the occasion. I will be happy when it happens, but I don't know when it will happen. And then, after that, it will end and he will go back to the US.

I don't do either of these things, but I did copy and burn to disc that picture that reads: "I made you a cookie . . . but, I eated it."

WHEW!

---Not that we're anywhere near that point yet, but I track these things. Mostly it drives me nuts rather than contributing to any planning.

aren't they called Canada Geese??

Yes, they are called Canada geese.

Hmm . . . thank you, KarenCee, for taking the time to help, but I already have *that* link. Initially, we were going to have Del move up here and I looked into parts of the process then---but, things blew apart when his brother died and so I am moving to the US.

I was telling my brother (who is a Canadian like me) about VisaJourney and said that I would ask here if anyone knew of a message-board-community-thing for asking questions about his fiancée becoming a Permanent Resident of Canada. She is currently up here on a work permit teaching college level (*not* the same as university) history on Vancouver Island. Both my brother and she would like the PR thing, but don't want to screw things up by following the government's idea of instructions. Hence: is there a Canadian VJ-like place?

I only found Immigration Station (woefully lacking compared with VJ) and ImmigrationBoards/Canada (or something to that effect) that only has 1 page of posts---very small community.

My brother has met a USC who wants to move to Canada (as a PR---she is currently here on a work permit) and I recommended finding a place like VisaJourney. I have looked online and can only come up with 2 and they look nothing as good as VisaJourney (Canadian Immigration Station and Immigration Boards where you select a subcategory for emmigrating to Canada).

I have emailed him the CIC URL already, but as we all know, the government take on instructions is woefully bare.

Any guidance or assistance is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

Merry Boxing Day!

Oh, I should add, they've been engaged for about 4 months and have been co-habitating for over a year. They met in Singapore when they were both teaching there. So, it's not like a marriage of convenience.

VJ is vital to me and mine getting through this ordeal correctly the *first* time. Yes, I would pay for a subscription (5 bucks, even in USD, is pretty cheap for what I would get). However, I would eventually drift away when I no longer required VJ's services---what's that about 6 or 7 years to get to the very end from the very beginning?

Female - no.

It was a spider---not a slug. And, I wouldn't squish it. I would pick it up in the "bug collector" (a tool I've had for years) and put it in the garbage chute or the stairwell of my building. Indoor spiders die when you put them outdoors. I wouldn't want the responsibility. 'Twould tear me apart.

Hmm . . . I have never known how to use the multi-quote feature and wondered about it when I saw it. I have few clues about how to use most anything here as this is the first "board" to which I have belonged. I only noticed that once I accidentally hit either + Quote or " Reply instead of ADDREPLY and ended up with quoted stuff.

I am also not concerned about whether I mess up the html. I depend on my intention being obvious. Yes-yes, very trusting, I know. :-)

As for the Profile area: I didn't know how to navigate around the old one so there isn't much difference to me. I am *not* complaining, either, btw. I must watch others crawling to get an idea about how to do it myself.

Overall, though, I like what I see.

Re: related topics

I use this feature a lot because searches often do not bring me to where I expect to be. However, I can find what I am looking for by clicking related topics and clicking those related on the next page and so on until I arrive at the answer to my original question. When I asked a question about how to renew passports when not in Canada (that never got answered as far as I know), I found the answer on my own by using the related posts feature. If this feature is gone, then I will have to resort to asking the same annoying questions repeatedly and bothering all the non-new members (see the posts under the topic with a heading something like "Newbies really bug me. Can we have them go to a forum just for them?" or something of that tone [found it: "Filtering New Member Questions."]).

Re: slow-loading signatures

I just hit "stop" at the top of my browser. The posts will still load, but all the animations won't. If you use IE, you can go into the advanced tab of tools and prevent animations, videos and all that junk from loading anywhere, not just VJ. I haven't figured out how to do it yet with Firefox.

Also, it's just plain lucky that you can keep up with VJ at work. I am locked out of all sites except wikipedia and dictionary.com---oh, and the company website, of course (to which I have no access because I have no password because I haven't been there long enough to have been given a password).

I have Firefox set to clear everything every time that I close the browser so cache clearing is never an issue.

Dunno if I have written anything useful, but I'm going now.

(originally posted 2006-11-29 elsewhere and I'd erase the other if I could---and this post is slightly different now that the original)

I received an email from a fellow VJer suggesting that I cut 'n' paste my post elsewhere. I am not the sort of person who is likely to begin my own separate topic and am more inclined to post in a topic that I think is linked to my own question. If this is inappropriate, you are welcome to tell me off.

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I don't know where else to look. (Yes, I *do* searches.)

I'm CONFUSED! about all the different timelines

Yes, yes, I joined in Jan of 2006, but I am only recently active because we were trying to cram in a music festival (involving me going to the US) before filing to begin the K-1.

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list...da&dfile=No

Under this url it lists XX days for our total. After some backwards and forwards arithmetic I arrived at the conclusion that the number of days---at this point---is calculated from the time the packet left my boyfriend's fingertips to whatever is the current date.

However, when I go to the page http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/stats.php it only lists "filing" to "interview." Is the "filing" date the same as mailed date or is it NoA1 date---and *which* NoA1 date? In historical trends, it has filing to NoA2---and then I have to figure out how many weeks and days to approximately add to that based on the K-1 flow chart in Guides.

We are going through Nebraska and Canada is the outside country. Average total days to interview was 189* for K-1 and immediately below that is the graph showing 192 days---from "initial filing." Is that 192 days from the time the I-129f left my boyfriend's fingertips to the interview or from the filing date of NoA1 or from the day that *he* got the NoA1 in the mail?---or is it something else? And, why does it say 189 days in the written part? What are the 189 days?

I-129f left bf's fingertips 2006-10-12

NoA1 filing date in CSC 2006-10-18

NoA1 received by snail 2006-10-28

That means that the date on the document says October 18, but the bf didn't receive it until October 28. Hence, the question about *which* NoA1 date is used.

Yes, I know that I have wandered all over with this post, but I wanted to be sure to cover all the points of confusion. Each of the graphs tells a different story. Overall total it is from filing to interview. If I go to the graph for NSC it goes from filing to NoA2. I find it difficult to make a comparison between the average overall total and the average total for NSC since the total for NSC is not using the same data.

PS:

Advanced searches using +timeline+explanation return only results that contain the word timeline---which is not helpful.

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At this point, I no longer even look at the NSC info as it is drastically less (by about 70 days) than the overall average of all service centres and does not go from beginning to the crux of yes or no like the overall average does.

teal / don't care

His are a startling blue.

Yes, but not $5 to $10.

I can't find diced papaya anywhere! Oh, except in Idaho. Since I am still in Alberta, that hardly does me any good. I *hate* dicing my own and dusting the lot with arrowroot powder. Very tedious.

Dunno the difference between "carol" and "song." I said "other" for both.

Carol of the Bells

Christmas at Ground Zero

I listen to these no matter what the season---neither me nor the bf do xmas.

(temps...as bad as substitute teachers )

I am a temp. Have you ever been a temp?

My physics teacher told us that absolute zero was a theory. He said that he didn't want to be around when someone was actually able to achieve absolute zero as that would mean that the electrons would stop spinning around the nucleus---part of what the definition of "Matter" is. He postulated that the lab might contain a petri dish of anti-matter and since that had only been described in fiction---he didn't want to live it. He didn't think that absolute zero was -273ºC either. He said that that was just "really cold."

Hardly matters, I suppose: I really don't crave a trip around the back side of Pluto to check out just what temperature nothing is. Calgary is only sort of cold and then sort of mild and sort of cold again. I have learned to bundle up if I am going to be on any of the avenues because the wind just howls down 'em. The streets are generally sheltered. Where I hope to be going next year sometime is only going to get down to the same winter temps as I grew up with in southern ON.

As one of my entries was a Please Specify, here it is:

I eat a bowl of raw cereal grains for breakfast jollied up with a dried fruit (varies from mix to mix), a nut or seed (varies from mix to mix) and dusted with a spice (varies from mix to mix). To this I add milk.

When the mix runs out, I mix up another batch. The ingredients in the cupboards are rotated after each new mix. There are 3 base ingredients of rolled oats, wheat bran and unsweetened shredded or otherwise pulverised coconut---whatever is available when I restock---that are in every mix in the same proportions. The number of different kinds of nuts and seeds is different from the number of dried fruits which, in turn, is also different from the number of spices. I seldom eat the same mix twice---unless I really like it and mix some up for my boyfriend when he comes to visit.

A surprisingly good mix added to the base 3 are currants, pecans and cardamom. But, if I had to eat the same flavours every day, I am sure to become bored with them.

That's it!

Thankyouthankyouthankyou!

I don't know where else to look. (Yes, I *do* searches.)

I'm CONFUSED! about all the different timelines

Yes, yes, I joined in Jan of 2006, but I am only recently active because we were trying to cram in a music festival (involving me going to the US) before filing to begin the K-1.

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list...da&dfile=No

Under this url it lists XX days for our total. After some backwards and forwards arithmetic I arrived at the conclusion that the number of days---at this point---is calculated from the time the packet left my boyfriend's fingertips to whatever is the current date.

However, when I go to the page http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/stats.php it only lists "filing" to "interview." Is the "filing" date the same as mailed date or is it NoA1 date---and *which* NoA1 date? In historical trends, it has filing to NoA2---and then I have to figure out how many weeks and days to approximately add to that based on the K-1 flow chart in Guides.

We are going through Nebraska and Canada is the outside country. Average total days to interview is 189 for K-1 and immediately below that is the graph showing 192 days---from "initial filing." Is that 192 days from the time the I-129f left my boyfriend's fingertips to the interview or from the filing date of NoA1 or from the day that *he* got the NoA1 in the mail?---or is it something else? And, why does it say 189 days in the written part? What are the 189 days?

I-129f left bf's fingertips 2006-10-12

NoA1 filing date in CSC 2006-10-18

NoA1 received by snail 2006-10-28

That means that the date on the document says October 18, but the bf didn't receive it until October 28. Hence, the question about *which* NoA1 date is used.

Yes, I know that I have wandered all over with this post, but I wanted to be sure to cover all the points of confusion.

PS:

Advanced searches using +timeline+explanation return only results that contain the word timeline---which is not helpful.

You need to be logged in to link it. It looks at the cookie for the forums ans if you are not logged in it wont know who you are .

When I am logged in, as I am at this moment or I wouldn't be able to post, I am taken to the same page---the one that I am taken to if I try to view *your* timeline (since you don't have one). I login, go to a post, click on the Timeline link which goes to the page that says I have no timeline, go through all the steps to "edit" my timeline---without doing so, of course---scroll to the bottom and Submit Changes and be right back where I started like I hadn't done anything.

Why would I have to be logged in just to view it? I don't have to be heishe to view theirs.

Would someone else please look at it and tell me what it says for the estimate to whatever it is that it gives estimates for? Obviously, it doesn't work for me.

Just for laughs: I am using Windows XP SP2. I have Zone Alarm firewall. AVG anti-malware. Ewido anti-malware (even though the upgrade gave me AVG). Norton Antivirus 2002 (because they still honour it). Firefox browser 2.0 where I accept cookies from sites until I close Firefox.

(Whoa! I just figured out how to insert emoticons---correctly)

I tried using the Internet Explorer browser to see if maybe it was a Firefox issue.

Nope.

Never mind.

Found answer by myself.

Now it says that I can't edit my own post?

Here's what I would have rather said:

Click on the timeline link from your personal profile, or even the link below your name on forum posts - there should be an option there to link it.

I have tried that umpteen times and it doesn't work. I do not see an option to link it. My timeline can be displayed somewhere, though, because the member who collects them (Gary'n'Luz? I think) has found ours and included it in their list (I been. I saw.)

I have made some screen shots of what the steps are that I follow if you think that looking at them would help to figure out how to do the autolink.

Basically, if I click on the Timeline under my posting it takes me to a screen that says: No Timeline Found! Note: This member has not auto-linked their timeline or does not have one. To auto-link a timeline to a profile simply follow one of these options:

1. If you already have a timeline in the timeline section [which I do], simply click here and enter your email address. [Done]. You will then be forwarded to your timeline. [Yes, this happens.] Scroll to the bottom and click submit. [Done.] Your timeline will now auto-link to your member profle. [No, it doesn't.]

Option 2 is for those members who do not yet have a timeline.

Would someone else try clicking on the Timeline under my posts to see if it's just me that can't see my own (even when logged off and coming back as a guest)? And, if you can see a timeline, please tell me what it says for the estimate to Interview?

Cat sitting on a mop. I love that.

I would like to point out that the screen that opens after I "click here" says:

VisaJourney Timeline login page

New Users: Enter your email and click the Add / Edit button to create a timeline.

I am not a new user.

Also, the Submit button says: Submit Changes.

(The other option is to view The List.)

Click on the timeline link from your personal profile, or even the link below your name on forum posts - there should be an option there to link it.

I have tried that umpteen times and it doesn't work. I do not see an option to link it. My timeline can be displayed somewhere, though, because the member who collects them (Gary'n'Luz? I think) has found ours and included it in their list (I been. I saw.)

I have made some screen shots of what the steps are that I follow if you think that looking at them would help to figure out how to do the autolink.

Basically, if I click on the Timeline under my posting it takes me to a screen that says: No Timeline Found! Note: This member has not auto-linked their timeline or does not have one. To auto-link a timeline to a profile simply follow one of these options:

1. If you already have a timeline in the timeline section [which I do], simply click here and enter your email address. [Done]. You will then be forwarded to your timeline. [Yes, this happens.] Scroll to the bottom and click submit. [Done.] Your timeline will now auto-link to your member profle. [No, it doesn't.]

Option 2 is for those members who do not yet have a timeline.

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Would someone else try clicking on the Timeline under my posts to see if it's just me that can't see my own (even when logged off and coming back as a guest)? And, if you can see a timeline, please tell me what it says for the estimate to Interview?

Cat sitting on a mop. I love that. java script:emoticon(':)', 'smid_4')

I was wanting to see how my time line looked to others. So, I logged off, cleared the câche and cookies and came back to VJ as a guest. I then found "me" and clicked on timeline and was told (again) that either I don't have one (which I do) or that I haven't auto-linked it.

My guess is, I haven't auto-linked it. How do I do this?

(The reason I want to know, is that some day I would like to direct He to it to give He a practical idea of what it's all about. He is not a member here and depends on me---the non-USC---to find the info for He to implement; which I don't mind. He does have to work longer hours than I.)

Meauxna:

Does the UK passport not expire? My Canadian one does---every 5 years.

How would I renew it? Does anyone know?

Not that I, either, am anywhere close to that point.

PS: the Diversified Lottery was closed to Canadians that last time that I looked (too many of us in the US already---teeheehee).