ForumTitleContentMemberSexCountryDate/Time
CanadaHOOOOOOOOOOOCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY
Lol I just love all the references to the 1980 Miracle on Ice in regards to this game by the American media, many of whom never watched a hockey game in their life :bonk:

This was a PRELIMINARY game and neither team won or lost a medal, it really wasn't that big of a deal Lol. I bet this game wakes up Canada and you see them showing a much bigger effort on defense for the rest of the tournament. Don't get me wrong, I'm very glad the States won but this was not an incredible upset. Every single player on both sides plays in the NHL, I think it's pretty safe to say they're all relatively solid hockey players hahaha
bowflexMaleCanada2010-02-22 10:00:00
CanadaHOOOOOOOOOOOCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY
With me being so close to the border (around 45 minutes-ish) I think I could hear the collective sounds of bumholes puckering up with each shot in the shootout of the people in Canada hahaha :)
bowflexMaleCanada2010-02-19 10:31:00
CanadaHOOOOOOOOOOOCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY

LOL, my husband has similar opinion about women's basketball teams.

Haha In my opinion basketball shouldn't even have a professional league Lol. Have you ever seen them fight? It's like two young drunken toddlers slapping at each other over the last blow pop :whistle:

Oh and add to the fact that when one of their superstars, Dwayne Wade, got hurt a few years ago with a separated shoulder, he started to cry in front of everyone and needed a WHEELCHAIR to get to the locker room. :rofl:
bowflexMaleCanada2010-02-17 12:59:00
CanadaApproved
Congrats!!!
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-09 13:33:00
CanadaGot my Passport Back!
Huge congrats to you :) Really how many people get to experience such a life-changing event in their lives? I guess that's one positive of this entire journey, most couples never really get to experience something like this that they've worked so hard for. Have a great POE, a great trip, and an even better first night "home" :)
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-09 13:28:00
CanadaWhy Canada Sucks....

Be careful it hasn't hit a collection agency and in turn your credit report. In case you ever chose to move back it could come back to haunt you.

My termination fee was on my final bill, so I had no issues paying it. Just paid it how I normally paid my bills.

:) "Luckily" my wife was just in Canada going for permanent residence status and by leaving she can never apply for a visa there again. I guess if something didn't work out in the States with her status she'd have to look back to Europe cause of that stupid bill hehe

Was so frustrating, same type of thing happened here in Michigan when our mortgage was sold to another bank. We had to call about 30 phone numbers to find out who we could actually send our check to on time, sooooo annoying :)
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-05 17:00:00
CanadaWhy Canada Sucks....

Am I the only one that wasn't mad that I paid $300 to cancel my cell phone with Bell? I mean it definitely stung a bit, but I knew all along I would have to pay it and budgeted for it as part of my moving costs. A contract is a contract. They don't force us to sign them. I actually could've just bought my phone outright without a contract, but wasn't sure how long I was staying (back in 2007) so I just signed the contract knowing full well I might end up paying for it later.

My wife and I actually felt the same exact way. Only problem we had was that Rogers made it so friggin difficult to pay the termination fee. Tried to do it online, was told to go do it at a service center. Went to the service center, was told to go to a different one in Devonshire Mall in Windsor. Went there, was told to go to one of their rental centers. Finally we sent a check directly to Rogers' home office, got it back in the mail stating they couldn't process, and we just left. If they don't want our money I'm fine with that, ended up using it on going out to eat a few times if I'm not mistaken haha
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-05 16:46:00
CanadaWhy Canada Sucks....
I took this thread to be more tongue and cheek than the last one personally, hope that was how it was intended lol

Personally I really miss the general niceness of the people in Canada compared to here. It was very cool to build so many friendships and relationships with people in Canada and I was just there on the weekends visiting my wife. I've got many old friends here in the States but it's very rare to go to a bar or a bowling alley in the States and to see the kind of manners and stuff that I saw in Canada and that was only about an hour to an hour and a half away lol
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-05 16:44:00
CanadaWhy Canada Sucks....

True, but in a way it's better than paying for your brain transplant with a my taxes.

Is that any worse than paying taxes for roads to be repaired that you don't use or for schools to be built that your kids won't attend? :)

The only thing that annoyed me while my wife was in Canada was having to go to a LCBO or Beer Store and get there a lot earlier than 2am if I wanted anything? :thumbs:
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-05 14:12:00
CanadaWhy Canada Sucks....
Lol Just wait till there's a gap in your health insurance and a testicle falls out or something, you'll be wishing you were paying more for beer haha
:rofl:
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-05 14:04:00
CanadaMontreal review

We just got back to the hotel - in time to use the breakfast vouchers at the Hilton. How about that! Approved... Will write a review soon as I have a moment.

Congrats to you guys too!!!
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-11 10:48:00
CanadaMontreal review
Congrats!!!
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-11 10:42:00
CanadaWhat are the chances I can stay that long?

I visited my husband about 5 times during our K-1 process and it was never an issue at all. I had never seen the inside secondary until I crossed with my visa! Some aren't so lucky, but there are many people who cross regularly and never have a problem.

Lol My wife and I get called in there so much now I'm thinking of bringing a plant and a quality piece of artwork for the wall to, you know, make it more homey in there :thumbs:

Edited by bowflex, 11 March 2010 - 02:10 PM.

bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-11 14:07:00
CanadaNo Quick Turnaround after POE?

Strange that they wanted the x-ray too... Is that usually requested at POE?

While they didn't review my wife's thoroughly or anything they did request to see that we had it done when she crossed back in 2007. Made me feel better that I didn't just throw it out while dragging it around Montreal lol
bowflexMaleCanada2010-02-11 10:03:00
CanadaHeading Back to Windsor This Weekend :)
Oh wow that's a nice picture, even managed to keep the dingier American-side of it looking good, I'm impressed haha :)

48 saves for the Craigster, Go Avs Baby hahaha
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-15 15:14:00
CanadaHeading Back to Windsor This Weekend :)

I am so happy I lived in Amherstburg, is it such a nice little town.
We've got a bunch of pictures we took of the military stuff by the water & have it on our walls. Something to remind me.

We actually have three pictures of the Ambassador Bridge on our dining room wall to keep us from forgetting the times that we were so close to each other yet so far away. It was odd hearing my wife telling me stories of how she would go and pick up dinner and eat right on the water's edge there when I'd log off and head home from work everyday.

I was in the car with her coming back over the bridge after spending an awesome day with her family and it just made me so glad that we're together and not still dealing with that stuff. With the economy problems and everything it's easy to forget that things are so much better now than they were when we were apart :)

Enjoy Windsor for me too! Amherstburg is one of my favourite towns! I used to participate in the re-enactments at Fort Malden every Civic Day holiday weekend in August. It started as a predominantly War of 1812 event but has morphed into a TimeLine event. It is well worth a visit this summer since you are so close. I miss camping alongside the river - it was always so easy to imagine that I had actually stepped back in time to 1812.

Except for the fact that last time we camped there we just slept in the back of my Jeep I know exactly what you're talking about :) Was really cool to just camp so close to the water and be at peace without having all of the stupid ####### that invades our lives on a day to day basis in the city :)
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-15 13:13:00
CanadaHeading Back to Windsor This Weekend :)

Say HI to Windsor for me :)

Lol My wife and I are always talking about going camping around Amherstburg again this summer :) When she worked at the newspaper there I went and visited while taking a day off of work during the summer and we ate some Subway right by the water, such a cool little town :)
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-12 16:44:00
CanadaHeading Back to Windsor This Weekend :)
Wife's family misses us so we're gonna go all day on Saturday, woohoo :) Nothing like having some good, healthy European cooking and watching some UFC with the father-in-law haha

Hope everyone has a great weekend too!!
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-12 16:32:00
CanadaANY OTHER SURPRISES I SHOULD BE AWARE OF???
QUOTE (Hugglebuggles @ Mar 17 2009, 05:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Wow I honestly never thought of any of this until just now. I was so caught up in getting everything done with the petition, the actual move hasn't really been in my mind. I guess i'm lucky though: i'm not bringing my car over (its a 1995, whats the point?), I live with mom and dad still so no getting out of rent contracts or canceling utility bills (anything I forget to change will be sent to them anyways), no pets, I don't have much stuff so I can just fit it all in my fiance's grand prix... But health insurance? I know my fiance has good coverage, but he probably can't add me until after the wedding can he? And a drivers license... I'm not so sure that's going to be easy for me either (I only have a G2, I'm going to have to take a test I bet...)

I guess all this time I was thinking that my stress is over once the k-1 petition is approved but... not so much!


My wife was actually in much the same situation as you. We just loaded up my Commander and moved her over. I have Blue Cross insurance and I was able to get her added onto my insurance within a week of her coming back. We did do a CR-1 visa so not sure if that had anything to do with it but hopefully your husband's carrier can do the same, good luck!


bowflexMaleCanada2009-03-17 16:55:00
CanadaANY OTHER SURPRISES I SHOULD BE AWARE OF???
QUOTE (warlord @ Mar 17 2009, 05:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (bowflex @ Mar 17 2009, 04:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Other than trying to teach yourself to remove the old English u from certain words I think you've got a good list there smile.gif Good luck!


Yes by removing useless vowels like u from words, spelling Check rather then "che qu eee" and always remember to put the er back in the proper place at the ends of words like center and enter etc.

Ha ha.

Seriously though, does credit in Canada help you in the US at all? I know there's been several people recently talking about this and how they're coping trying to get a credit rating. I didn't think Canadian credit would count towards any credit history in the US, even if you are using something well known like Visa or Master Card etc?

Think some others that have been through this could clarify on if that would help or not...


I actually work for a bank and while we do look at international credit reports, it's usually just to see late payments or defaults. We don't actually review the credit scores unless it's an American credit report.

When my wife was in Canada I did get a Best Buy card, bought a tv, and then added her to the account. While I was paying on the tv she was actually building credit and two weeks after she got here (about 6 or 7 months later) she actually had a score in the high 600s and she was able to lease a car in her name only.


bowflexMaleCanada2009-03-17 16:05:00
CanadaANY OTHER SURPRISES I SHOULD BE AWARE OF???
Other than trying to teach yourself to remove the old English u from certain words I think you've got a good list there smile.gif Good luck!

bowflexMaleCanada2009-03-17 15:40:00
CanadaAPPROVED!!!!!
Congrats!!!
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-16 16:03:00
CanadaHappy St. Patrick's Day!
Haha I keep hearing people on the radio show I listen to rip into people that are at the bars wearing green that aren't Irish. I just want to say to these people: "Psssst, you're in Michigan right now, you've never been to Ireland, fairly sure you've been out of the tri-state area twice in your life, you are AMERICAN, not Irish, suck it up and let them drink"

On that note Happy St Patty's to everyone!! Lol :dance:
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-17 13:47:00
CanadaNot digging the new look
I really liked the old format of the forums as it was easy to do everything. I'll work to get used to this of course but change isn't needed just for change sake Lol
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-15 12:54:00
CanadaLol This Made Me Laugh :)
Lol Yeah I failed something fierce, was just some great photoshopping of Sid the Kid's celebration after scoring the gold medal goal :)
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-18 15:54:00
CanadaLol This Made Me Laugh :)
Baaah I really hate these new forum setups but got it finally Lol
:bonk:
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-18 14:59:00
CanadaLol This Made Me Laugh :)
A lil somethin' somethin' for you folks from Canada, might take a second or two to load Lol

Link

P.S. I wanted to post as a link but the stupid link box opened up half off my screen so I didn't know what the ####### to do Lol :)

Edited by bowflex, 18 March 2010 - 02:58 PM.

bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-18 14:54:00
CanadaGot my Green Card today!
Congrats!!!
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-10 12:41:00
CanadaVisa: Denied
Very very sorry to hear that Avery. My wife initially had her visa denied at the interview and that's even after we spent a few thousand on a really good lawyer. Sometimes the people there are looking for reasons to deny cases but I have been seeing this come up more and more on these boards lately.

I wish you a ton of luck, just get all your stuff together and express it right over to them smile.gif I faxed a Bible-sized packet of information over to them back in April of 2007 two days after the denial and it worked out okay, just added a few extra months to the process.

Sooo many good luck wishes to you both, I hope everything gets resolved as soon as possible for you!!!

bowflexMaleCanada2009-10-14 09:34:00
CanadaApproved!!!!!!!
Congrats!!!
bowflexMaleCanada2010-03-23 16:04:00
CanadaHappy Easter!
Lol Hope everyone enjoys the holiday, I'll be at work for normal hours as usual, woohoo

Although I guess in these times I'm still happy to just have a job :wow:
bowflexMaleCanada2010-04-01 16:10:00
CanadaLatest Update

Thanks Boflex this really gives me hope. So do you think he should give them all of his paperwork for his pending case. Although the US Consulate is only asking for a letter from the Canadian Immigration on his pending case should he send in everything he has on his pending case with the Canadian Immigratioin?

I definitely would provide absolutely everything he can as our lawyer told us he's seen similar situations where they would only send a RFE or request for one document at a time and it just made it last all the longer. We just gave them a pile of documents and never received a request for additional info. Good luck!!!
bowflexMaleCanada2010-04-08 15:13:00
CanadaLatest Update

I spoke with my hubby last night, and he told me that he received a letter from the US Consulate. The letter said that he needed a letter from the Canadian Immigration on his pending case there. Now I called the DOS yesterday and the lady didn’t even tell me that they had sent out a letter the only thing she told me was his file had been touched this month. I sure hope they can issue his visa once they receive the letter from the Canadian Immigration on his status there. His case is still in AP pending the letter they just asked for. :wacko: This is totally driving me crazy. Can anyone give me any feedback with him not having any status in Canada, but a pending asylum case with this letter from the Canadian Immigration can he still be issued a visa? :help:

When my wife and I were going for her CR-1 in the States her family and she had a pending Humanitarian and Compassionate case pending in Canada. We were using a lawyer for our case as it was a pretty unique case, just a FYI. He asked us to provide all of the information that her family had on their case (application, copies of their passports with the date they entered Canada stamped on them, any updates/additional information requests/processing status updates they received from the Canadian Government, as well as copies of any immigration documents they received while in Canada (medical cards, etc...).

After we provided all of that it seemed enough to show the US Government that they were in Canada legally and our file was moved on. I think this should work for you guys as well as my wife technically didn't have citizenship or any other status in any other country in the world at that time as she was born in the former Yugoslavia and Serbia doesn't like to recognize anyone that left :)

Hope this helps!
bowflexMaleCanada2010-04-08 09:18:00
CanadaCanadians going to Michigan on K1

LOL. Yea, I don't think many US residents are moving to Michigan, unless they have a really good reason!
Canada's HotSpot eh? Gonna need A LOT of Timmies for that! How ya liking this snow?

Anyways...went to the county clerk's office this afternoon & he asked us for our passports(he photocopied them) & driver's licenses(he photocopied them) & made us fill out a short application.
Its good for 30 days(getting married next Saturday) & we can pick it up Thursday.

Glad to hear that went smoothly for ya :)

This snow is already getting everyone here frightened about leaving and stuff, I'm so glad I only live 15 minutes-ish from the office. Used to take me over 2 hours to drive home before we moved nice and close :)
bowflexMaleCanada2010-02-09 16:41:00
CanadaCanadians going to Michigan on K1
Lol I think immigration is going to be Michigan's only hope to get more people living here now. I'm going to start a campaign to get more Tim Hortons built around the state for us to become Canada's hotspot hahaha
bowflexMaleCanada2010-02-09 14:09:00
CanadaThe Vent - Part Trois

My husband does it too! So does his dad. It's sooo gross. The first time I went out to eat with him I was kind of horrified...:lol:

He has quieted down, he doesn't make the smacking noise now, so I do avoid looking at him... he say's it's because he can't breathe out his nose.

My FIL though.. he smacks and chews and it's gross. I can't stand it.

Lol If your guy can go underwater when swimming without his mouth being wide open, make him shut his friggin mouth when he eats haha

That is one of my BIGGEST pet peeves, it's just disgusting and there's no way to give an excuse for it haha. If you can't breath through your nose, guess what, if you're chewing for more than 15-20 seconds you might want to rethink your strategy for eating Lol.
bowflexMaleCanada2010-04-07 12:56:00
CanadaThe Vent - Part Trois

Psh. Luongo's playoff stats are great! He had one bad game -- one bad game at a critical time, I'll admit -- but one bad game. Even including that one atrocious game, he has a 2.09 GAA and a .930 save percentage! If you believe, like I do, that save percentage is the most important goalie stat, I'm not sure how anyone can knock him overall as a playoff goaltender. One bad game!

I wouldn't be too stoked about him after seeing that REALLY rough game against the Americans, looked like he was controllling those rebounds off his chest like a soccer player :)

Gonna be a great playoffs though, I seriously can't wait, I just hope the Avs don't continue to choke Lol
bowflexMaleCanada2010-04-01 16:06:00
CanadaThe Vent - Part Trois

Neither of them are going to catch my Canucks for the division title. :whistle:

Haha Luongo will just give it up in the playoffs though. I guess having a banner being raised in the rafters is okay, even if it's just for a division title :whistle:
bowflexMaleCanada2010-04-01 15:44:00
CanadaNov 12 interview CR-1 Visa Montreal
QUOTE (Missmystery @ Nov 17 2009, 03:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I had my interview on 12th Nov and was told that they will post my visa in 1 week, should I go ahead and book my flight ticket or wait for the visa
any suggestions? Also some say that they post by batches every Mondays is it true ?

Congratulations!! good.gif

I'd actually wait as I never trust anything that Montreal says Lol. Wouldn't want to put the added strain on waiting for it to arrive with having to deal with the possible cancelation of a flight or something.


bowflexMaleCanada2009-11-17 15:54:00
CanadaEntering USA on CR-1 Question.
QUOTE (trailmix @ Nov 17 2009, 02:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If you are really on the ball with returning your stuff to NVC - around 11 months or so.

Yep if everything goes smoothly and you're ready to submit stuff right away this is about the time frame, good luck!


bowflexMaleCanada2009-11-17 14:51:00