Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Canada	Good luck to all the Canadians with interviews this week!	i am SO excited for you, my friend... Yayayay!!! Isn't it funny how now it's only 5 days away! I'm still not nervous... I wonder why? I don't get nervous very often though, so maybe I won't! I always THINK I'm going to be nervous, and then in the nerve-inducing situation, I'm actually calm, cool, collected and confident. Let's hope the same thing happens on Friday morning! I just sent Hotel Dauphin an email, asking whether or not I could extend my check-out time on Friday. I imagine I'm going to want a nap afterwards, since I'll be getting up at the equivalent of 2:30 AM, thanks to my body being on West Coast time... It's so awesome that they have computers with internet in every room though. That's a MAJOR bonus. If I have time, I'll write up my review right then and there. Unless I'm denied, in which case I might just jump out the window.	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-02-28 11:43:00
Canada	Good luck to all the Canadians with interviews this week!	Oooh, exciting! Good luck to everyone, looking forward to hearing all your approvals one after the other, after the other, after the other! Bonne chance... LGG	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-02-28 11:27:00
Canada	Visa in Hand!!!!	Amazing, SDW!!! Good news-- it's pretty cool, eh?	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-04 12:42:00
Canada	Calling Len	YOu bet you will, lady! And yeah, Len was hilarious and forthright... she was a cool poster -- I'm wishing her the best and I hope all is well... So true. I have met a few great people from this place "IRL" and I plan to meet more. Even if I don't personally know a lot of the posters, I do care about them also. Like if something were to happen to anyone I talked to on here, I would be upset. I am not going to deny that.	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-05 16:01:00
Canada	Urgent help, guys!!!	She must HATE the look of my email right now BUT, she asked me to educate her and send her information as to what the CR1 visa was all about so... I did and also plead my case in there as well...<br>but showing the facts, just the facts... <br><br>	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-05 16:23:00
Canada	Urgent help, guys!!!	It's true... maybe. SO, I sent her a scan of the visa with the stamp on it again. Maybe on Monday we can clear things up.	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-05 16:17:00
Canada	Urgent help, guys!!!	Yeah, I HAVE the stamp on my visa! it's why I'm having such a big problem. It's all good on my end. I also scanned a copy of the visa with the stamp on it and sent it to her. I have no idea what she's on about, to be honest... sorry lgg, maybe missed something, at the POE did you not get the stamp in your passport? It just says CR-1 with a date on it. I just scanned a copy and emailed it to her.	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-05 15:47:00
Canada	Urgent help, guys!!!	No worries on my part -- as a CR1, I tend not to take the K1 stuff under advisement as they are totally different visas. Helpful for other K1s though. Yes this is correct the K-1 isn't a 90 day work permit. I said I wasn't positive on that and went and rooted out my paper work from when I got my EI The reason I thought that is, when I came through Halifax they stamped my EAD on the K-1 and in my Passport. Sorry if I added confusion to your situation	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-05 15:40:00
Canada	Urgent help, guys!!!	HA!!! You know what, kittyCatty? I totally thought that too! I was like, really? REALLY? But I realize that VJ and all my buddies here have taught me well as I was able to explain to her everything about CR1/IR1 visas... But yeah, MrsCat... I had that exact thought... I have sent her all of TM's links and quite a few of my own that I found. Maybe send Donna a link to the VJ Canadian EI thread, she can just post her questions in there for her out of country EI stuff.	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-05 15:35:00
Canada	Urgent help, guys!!!	Thanks SO much TM... you're a real gem. I'm just SO shocked that she/they had no idea. I sort of felt like I was/am going to be penalized for their misinformation and that is not right. IT's not like i'm desparate for my benefits BUT to be penalized for ignorance is so wrong. Plus, I"ve paid into them since I was 15... Thanks a lot... I appreciate that. I've sent Donna all the links and such that she may need to inform herself and her colleagues. How none of you other CR/IR1s hoping for EI get caught like this. Best, LGG	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-05 15:23:00
Canada	Urgent help, guys!!!	It even says on my darn visa: "UPON ENDORSEMENT SERVES AS TEMPORARY I-551 EVIDENCING PERMANENT RESIDENCE FOR 1 YEAR. I guess I'm just surprised that the interstate head person, the famous DOnna had NO Idea what she was dealing with. She thought the IR1 was a religious work based visa???? [b] WHy does EVERYTHING have to be fraught with difficulty ? Thanks Dutchmatt, but I think the verbiage in that letter might confuse them even more. Yeah, she just called back and said, " I have been looking but I can't even find what a CR1 visa is... " Very. Very. Very confusing to me. Edited by lgg, 05 March 2010 - 03:06 PM.	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-05 15:03:00
Canada	Urgent help, guys!!!	This is regarding EI but no one reads that forum so here goes. I am dealing with the famous Donna at the interstate office -- she needs me to provide proof that he stamp in my passport for my CR1 visa acts as my green card until my greencard arrives. SO, can anyone here find a real, bonefide link to a government site that says that? Otherwise I'll be penalized for like 2 or 3 weeks until I get my green card. It's odd, as Donna was the know all of our claims but she thought that the IR-1 visa was a religious belief based visa. Any help appreciated... best LGG	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-05 14:34:00
Canada	Good Luck, Wyatt's Torch	OF COURSE YOU DID!!!! Your rock! Congratulations, buddy! Now you can move on to the next steps! Congrats, congrats, congrats!!	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-05 10:52:00
Canada	Good Luck, Wyatt's Torch	*bump* Since Wyatt was probably their "A" person, I'm sure he's just now waiting or even finishing the interview part of everything...	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-05 08:45:00
Canada	Good Luck, Wyatt's Torch	i am SUCH a klassy lady, sometimes... Awww...thanks guys. Leaving for the airport in fifteen minutes. I'll check in with y'all again once I'm at the hotel. And tHund3r? Careful what you say about my torch around Lgg...she found a way to make it sound downright LEWD once.	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-04 09:16:00
Canada	Good Luck, Wyatt's Torch	Here's a thread for my friend Wyatt! After all this time and all the commiseration, you're on your way. Fly safe, interview well and bring home the visa! You've been a pillar of hilarity and wisdom... Good luck, Wyatt!	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-04 08:48:00
Canada	Happy Women's Day	This is HILARIOUS!!!!! And mmmmmm.... me like sammiches! just kidding YOu and me could hang out at the hair salon and stuff! Getting our nails done and stuff. IT'll be a damn hoot!!! While our SOs are bringing home in the bacon! Well, my wife is going to be the breadwinner in our household for a little while, at least. It doesn't bother me at all, actually -- she's a couple of years older than me, and has a Master's. She's a hard worker and deserves her relative success. In a couple of years or so I'll probably be in the same financial ballpark as her, but in the interim, I'm just proud of her for her career achievements.	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-08 14:02:00
Canada	HOOOOOOOOOOOCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY	Oh man... it's gonna be a good one! Husband and I will be watching it eating the tortilla/bean casserole I'm going to make! Such fun rivalry! I love it. Can't wait for this game! GOOOOOOOOO CANADA!!!! So...who here is NOT going to be watching this game today?	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-02-28 11:42:00
Canada	HOOOOOOOOOOOCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY	I am freaking stoked that we won!!! Freaking AWESOME!! Go CANADA!!!!	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-02-24 23:23:00
Canada	POE Thousand Islands	Congrats! I just finished co-mingling all our stuff! It wasn't so bad at all, I just pushed all his stuff out of the way! j/k Good luck and happy to hear that you made it safe and sound.	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-03-09 17:01:00
Canada	Still waiting for my Visa	Uh yeah... I think the last batch was December 3rd. They are/should be scheduling as we speak. I would LOVE to hear some good news of that ilk too... Sorry MissMystery for derailing your happy thread. Not to derail this thread, but... Yeah, that IS the best news we've heard here in a long time isn't it? How long has it been since someone had an interview schedule or a visa approval?	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-01-06 13:14:00
Canada	Still waiting for my Visa	Yayayayayayayayayayayay!!!!! MissMystery! Best news in a long time! Glad to hear it... Good luck with everything else, okay? LGG	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-01-06 11:11:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	hey ZansGirl... VEnt away -- you're allowed to and yes, 'tired of leaving' is exactly how I described it. Some people are lucky -- they live with their spouse or whatnot during this process or, 'normal' couples who didn't have to immigrate to be together -- but it's super hard being apart all the time, spending only a few days a month or less together -- it wears you down. Feel free to vent -- most of us here understand that fully. This is a place where no one will tell you that you're over stressing about being separated from your spouse and we'll understand... LGG hubby called NVC this morning.... Very nice gentleman assured us that Montreal was schedualling, and if we were given a date...we would know by the 18th.... Kinda have heard this before!! September 25th seems like sooo long ago!! I kept thinking...any day now....and November passed...then December....I know it isn't near as long as some have been waiting...but it is hard... My daughter and her fiance are planning a trip from Grande Prairie to Tacoma to visit hubby and I.. she is 3 1/2 months pregnant now.. sure hope I am there!!!! My friends in Victoria say I "over-stress" about this immigration, but I think until you are in this situation, where your destiny is determined by others, you just don't get it. They can go see their husbands or wives whenever.....WE have to book flights, assemble files of paperwork, answer a slew of questions at the border, and then, WE have to leave again.......I am tired of leaving..... anyway....sorry for the downer...needed to vent and expell some of the negative to make room for all the positive I need!!!! GO GO VJ'ers!!!!! (thank (whomever) you are here!!!)	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-01-08 16:23:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	I am not bald so I can't be Curly. I think I'm a Moe, actually. and I really hope that's true about Montreal -- the waiting game is getting to be a bit much as I'm sure everyday more and more Canadians are waiting. It ain't right... So...which one is Curly? And for optimism, I read on another thread (I think the K1) that someone phoned Mtrl and they said they had done some hiring and were now fully staffed.	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-01-08 10:53:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	Me again!!! Bump, c'mon you guys -- let's pull together and will some positive action from Montreal... they just seem so primed for a mass scheduling! *nudge*	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-01-08 10:06:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	Oh my gosh!!!! It is, isn't it? I have SO much work to do that I have barely thought about it. Well, that's a lie but I am not nervous. We've booked all the travel and the hotel -- we're staying in La Square Phillips as it seems like a super nice place and it's not far from the Consulate at all. I also booked that weekend off my second job so I could just chill out. We're both meeting in Montreal on the Sunday so we can have a couple of days to hang out and eat some good food and relax and stuff. Thanks for the reminder, T.M. Exactly 3 weeks to your interview lgg! woot!	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-01-05 13:18:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	Just some good-natured hilarity, Valerie... I wish the same thing for everyone -- if just makes me worry as if the back log gets bigger, how are they ever going to catch up? Good luck with getting your NOA2... Sigh. This thread is now degenerating into physical abuse, I see. I just stopped by to wish you all speedy interviews. It is in my best interest if Montreal gets all of you scheduled for February and clears up the backlog, as I am ever hopeful I will someday see my NOA2...	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-01-05 10:56:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	*slap* *elbow*	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-01-05 10:47:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	*nudge*	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-01-05 10:39:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	I don't know what it is about that damn cheerleader but god, it makes me wet myself giggling. :| *runs off to dry out pants*	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-01-04 12:47:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	WE need Trailmix's cheerleader right now! But we need to have Wyatt's face on it!	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-01-04 11:28:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	Hi!!!! *waves* Let's do this thing, right? They should technically be doing some scheduling, no?	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2010-01-04 10:53:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	~bump~ get up there, optimism...	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2009-12-16 18:57:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	OMG!! Wyatt, I totally meant to post something horribly optimistic and awesome here but I gots head in butt syndrome today. I'm sorry. I will make it up to you, I promise...	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2009-12-10 16:55:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	*meow* I actually meant to say that you guys helped ME with it. Kept me upbeat and stuff. *scritches Mal behind the ear* QUOTE (Malrothien @ Dec 3 2009, 10:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bahaha, you know better than that with me.	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2009-12-03 22:44:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	*Emits some optimism here. * BTW, i didn't have much left but Wyatt and Mal did a good with it. Must me so nice to be so naturally optimistic....	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2009-12-03 22:35:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	Gah! Well a bird in the hand IS worth two in the bush...	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2009-12-03 11:44:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	Hey Bern, yeah Wyatt and I called them yesterday or the day before and were told to STFU and GTFO!! Okay, not really but the usual you have not been scheduled, we don't know when, please call back... Yadah, yadah, yadah... I find that calling them and hearing that really wrecks the 15 minutes or so after the call. then I get back to the okay, just waiting. But that 15 minutes or so after the call is rough. It's a good t hing I have a private office here at work as I often cry when I get off the phone with them. I am a big baby. This I freely admit to. QUOTE (Bern. @ Dec 3 2009, 11:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Are you going to give them a call and try anyway? I mean, last month they scheduled from July and since you're August. I would give it a try. Or how do interview scheduling work? Do they e-mail you a letter or...? o_O Pssssh, Stop hen-pecking me, would ya???? QUOTE (Wyatt's Torch @ Dec 3 2009, 11:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (lgg @ Dec 3 2009, 08:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh well I'm eating crow now, aren't ? *poosh poosh, is this thing even on* *smacks mic against stand* QUOTE (Wyatt's Torch @ Dec 3 2009, 11:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nah, I think apathy is just an oriole sin. Siss-boom-baaaa!! Okay, okay. That was a good one. Now stop grousing about it.	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2009-12-03 11:37:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	Oh well I'm eating crow now, aren't ? *poosh poosh, is this thing even on* *smacks mic against stand* QUOTE (Wyatt's Torch @ Dec 3 2009, 11:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nah, I think apathy is just an oriole sin. Siss-boom-baaaa!!	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2009-12-03 11:33:00
Canada	Reasons for Optimism	Well lust is impossible when I'm 500 miles away from the object of my desire!!!!! I figure I'll just slip into Sloth and gluttony and if a cardinal sin was apathy, I'll go there too just to dabble. don't worry, just the little sins!	lgg	Not Telling	Canada	2009-12-03 11:31:00