Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Canada	MTL Timeline to Interview	Hi all - just a quick update to let you know that we received a transfer to the Vancouver consulate, so you can delete my timeline from the chart. My entire family is in Alberta and the transfer was straightforward and very easy. We're hoping for a quicker interview date, and hopefully this will free up time in Montreal so you all get through the system more quickly as well. Best of luck to everyone. Did you transfer it at the Montreal level or the NVC level? My transfer was granted on January 24, but a week later (January 31), Vancouver still didn't receive the hardcopy of the file (they got the electronic data transfer though). So I'm still waiting for packet 3... Hi Misa - I transferred after the case had been received at Montreal. I'm still waiting for Packet 3 as well. Did you try emailing the Vancouver consulate? I did, just to check and see if they received the transfer. They got back to me in less than a day. I imagine it will take Montreal some time to mail the hard copy -- in the mean time, I was advised to get as much in order for packet 3 as possible. I'm not sure how long it takes for Montreal to mail the hard copy (how hard is that???) but as of today, Vancouver still doesn't have my hard copy. I have everything in order except the medical because I need the letter in packet 3 today. I'll add you to my friends list and maybe we can check up on each other since we're in the same situation and similar timelines.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-02-05 12:55:00
Canada	MTL Timeline to Interview	Hi all - just a quick update to let you know that we received a transfer to the Vancouver consulate, so you can delete my timeline from the chart. My entire family is in Alberta and the transfer was straightforward and very easy. We're hoping for a quicker interview date, and hopefully this will free up time in Montreal so you all get through the system more quickly as well. Best of luck to everyone. Did you transfer it at the Montreal level or the NVC level? My transfer was granted on January 24, but a week later (January 31), Vancouver still didn't receive the hardcopy of the file (they got the electronic data transfer though). So I'm still waiting for packet 3...	misa	Female	Canada	2007-02-02 18:58:00
Canada	Lost in the Mail	Out of curiosity, what was the address? If I were you, I'd put a stop payment on the cheque (they'll usually return the entire package if the cheque doesn't clear) and resubmit asap to the address on the instructions.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-10-14 18:04:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (vnoe @ Nov 2 2007, 07:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wow...thanks for that Misa. Personally we don't eat/drink much dairy so that is fantastic. I'm blaming you if I gain 1 oz. Let me know what you end up making!	misa	Female	Canada	2007-11-02 19:43:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	vnoe, here's a free PDF dessert cookbook. Most of the recipes are gluten free: http://www.vitalita....sOfVitality.pdf	misa	Female	Canada	2007-11-02 17:42:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	I used to frequent a usenet group on breadmaking and many of the U.S. folks who lived close to the Canadian border would go to Canada and stock up on Canadian all-purpose flour for their breadmaking (Robin Hood brand I think). They said it was superior to U.S. bread flour.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-11-02 17:21:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	No Knead Bread: http://www.nytimes.c...ng/081mrex.html It is awesome but you need to plan ahead of time.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-11-02 16:17:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Yeah, the flour issue. Canadian wheat contains higher amounts of gluten so recipes calling for "bread flour" you can use "all purpose" in Canada. In the U.S. you need to use bread flour for breadmaking. Mmm... bread. I should make some this weekend.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-11-02 12:53:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (Emancipation @ Nov 1 2007, 04:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm convinced it's one of the biggest cause of obesity in the US.. it's unreal what food HFCS is in.. it's even in bread.. BREAD for heaven's sake! Or plain canned beans! But yeah, it just takes getting used to label reading to avoid it. I've been label reading for years now so I don't find it time-consuming. After awhile it takes just a second to quickly scan the ingredients list.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-11-01 15:23:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	It's pretty easy to avoid HFCS once you get used to reading labels... just avoid packaged foods, junk food and crappy restaurants. Seriously, we don't ever eat or buy anything with HFCS.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-11-01 15:16:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (lynamon @ Oct 23 2007, 12:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I didn't know that we could do telephone reporting .. hmmm .. do you have more info? I don't, but I think several others (mephys comes to mind) do telephone reporting. I think... maybe emancipation did?	misa	Female	Canada	2007-10-23 09:15:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	For those applying for or already applied for EI... I posted this in the pinned thread: http://www.visajourn...h...t&p=1273347 I know I can do telephone reporting, but I'd rather mail it in so that there's an actual papertrail.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-10-22 09:50:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Eh, it doesn't matter which one. Just pick any and they'll piss you off.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-09-20 17:55:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	I went to look at the one that you're talking about (Maclean's) but ran into another thread that just pissed me off. ###### ignorant idiots.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-09-20 17:41:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	It's called "Across the border Can/Am couples" or something like that.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-09-05 15:50:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (Nini & Bee @ Sep 5 2007, 02:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (misa @ Sep 5 2007, 11:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Stupid facebook. I had signed up with my real name and already got slammed with request from people I used to know but no longer want to ever talk to. I'll have to sign up again with a different email and name. The only reason why I'm signing up is the Can/Am group! You can just ignore their requests, can't you? As far as I know, it doesn't respond back to the original person with a "you've been ignored by so-and-so". In a similar vein, I hate it when people ask you to join their stupid realtor referral group simply because they think you can "spread the word". Like I have a house to sell. Oh yeah, I ignored it but I'd rather they didn't even know where I was online! QUOTE (MarilynP @ Sep 5 2007, 03:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> you also can set your profile to private so only people you add as friends can see your profile... Ohhh... interesting! Well I already cancelled my original account. I'll sign up with another email and put my last name as "misa".	misa	Female	Canada	2007-09-05 14:31:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Stupid facebook. I had signed up with my real name and already got slammed with request from people I used to know but no longer want to ever talk to. I'll have to sign up again with a different email and name. The only reason why I'm signing up is the Can/Am group!	misa	Female	Canada	2007-09-05 13:22:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Interesting Mephys... I do think that with these filer threads people are starting to expect things based on other people's cases and we all know everyone's case is different. I dunno, the only thing I expected within a certain timeframe was the EAD since there is a reasonable expectation of when one would be approved for that. Even the district offices recognises that the norm is 90 days since you can make an appointment specifically if your EAD NOA1 was over 90 days old. As for AOS, it's a crapshoot and no one can really determine how long things are going to take. If someone gets transferred to CSC they might be in limbo (a.k.a. namecheck hell) for a long long time. If someone isn't transferred they'll just have to wait until they're scheduled for an interview at their district office and timelines for that vary by office. I'm actually glad my case got sent for an interview. I had a date in sight to at least know where my case stood as far as namecheck, approval, denial, further RFEs, pending approval, etc. I honestly didn't care if my interview was 6 or 12 months from filing as long as I had a "date" in sight even if there was no guarantee I'd be approved on that date. I wish more people would update their timeline though because that data can be very useful but right now it's out of date. I just did some random clicking on people's timelines and their timelines aren't updated at all (some don't even have one). I don't know about anyone else but that's the first thing I always updated when something changed on my case. It was nice to see all the fields start getting filled up. Throughout this entire thing, I am thankful that I didn't get caught up in IMBRA and so so soooooo thankful that everything has gone smoothly for me. Edited by misa, 05 September 2007 - 11:46 AM.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-09-05 11:46:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (Mephys @ Sep 5 2007, 08:21 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My NOA1 is 05-30-2007 and my application is in CSC, last touched on 07-18-2007, hopefully I will get my GC a little before christmas so I can go visit my family in Montreal ( OMG quick let's go complain about this 10 times a day in the AOS May filers thread ) If anyone has ever read that, and I know Emancipation did, it's as pathetic as the OT .... FUNNY! The April filers thread was pretty civil... I'll have to wander over to the May filers just to take a quick peek.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-09-05 09:19:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Have fun!	misa	Female	Canada	2007-09-04 21:43:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Got my GC in the mail today with NO ERRORS on it. Woo hoo! And it came to the correct address too. USCIS-free until May 2009!	misa	Female	Canada	2007-09-01 16:50:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (Sheri&Carl @ Aug 30 2007, 08:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> lol Well I figure living in Maine I'm close enough to Canada. I can cross the border 20 minutes from my house Close enough!	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-30 20:03:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Would an ionic air filter help with mold? I know it won't get rid of it but will it make it better for his wife while they're still living there?	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-30 11:43:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	8 pm tonight? I'll try and be online!	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-30 09:53:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (KarenCee @ Aug 29 2007, 09:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just an idea...why don't we all try to meet up in chat some fine evening? No one ever goes in anymore, we might even be able to have a decent real time chat! Ohhh, that's a swell idea. Want to propose a day and time? Edited by misa, 29 August 2007 - 10:04 PM.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-29 22:04:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Wowzers Tinker... that's gotta be a hard situation for you! Hopefully you can shake some sense into some people there. Like you said, you gotta start somewhere to make things better. Edited by misa, 27 August 2007 - 09:34 PM.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-27 21:33:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (Tinker @ Aug 27 2007, 06:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I saw a few places down there, but I've forgotten the names. I was hoping to help out single mothers and at the schools. I have the home care training, but I don't think it's accepted down there, but I want to work with disabled kids at home as well. HE says they're all n****** (not the disabled children) and I shouldn't go near them, because they're not the same as up here!! gawd How can it get better if no one ever tries. Maybe I can make a difference coming from here, not holding any prejudices. He's in AR so you can understand how he thinks. Err... OMG! Well hopefully you can help out. Um, what's "AR"?	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-27 18:38:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Where do you want to volunteer? Eventually I'd like to help people that other VJers would not want being helped.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-27 17:29:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Tinker, love the dress! As for the other topics, I'm staying away from them... grrr...	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-27 17:12:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (Jeremy + Kristy @ Aug 22 2007, 01:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Also, the roof of my mouth is generally burnt since I can't really gauge how hot the soups and such that I heat up are before I suck it up through the straw. Little trick I learned from someone. Stick the tip of your ring finger in your soup. If it's too hot for that, it's too hot for your mouth. Dont' think it works with your thumb or index or middle finger (or pinky) because they get more use and may have callouses on them or something like that... anyway, it works!	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-22 12:13:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	UGH! Jeremy, that's awful!	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-22 11:40:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Heh, I'm working on some stuff for some Canadian business professionals and almost every one of their bios state that their hobbies include playing hockey. ONLY IN CANADA!	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-17 15:35:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Heh, I can see you're a proponent of VMs!	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-14 22:17:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Why bother when you can just run a virtual machine inside your linux install? Several guys at work run Ubuntu and have a VM that has XP inside it for doing work with Visual Studio. I like to keep things separated.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-12 11:27:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Netflix has it if you're on Netflix. I'm a documentary junkie. I miss CBC Newsworld's "The Passionate Eye" like crazy!	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-11 12:12:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	You could do a dual boot of xp and linux on a PC as well if you had two HDs or set up different partitions on one. It's fairly easy to do but you have to start from scratch! Edited by misa, 11 August 2007 - 11:42 AM.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-11 11:42:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Oh oh, I rented this documentary yesterday. It was good, but sad... The Canada Council for the Arts helped with the funding. Go Canada! thetreble, I think you'd like this one.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-11 11:08:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	I recently got Vista, I had no choice it came with the computer .. I didn't like it at first but it is growing on me...... I remember when I went from Windows 95 to XP, I hated it at first... but then I got used to it... My laptop came preinstalled with Vista which I hate with a passion. It took me awhile to find all the drivers for XP but I did find them and was able to install XP Pro again with no problems. If you do decide to go back to XP, you'll have to make sure that you have all the XP drivers. Start with the manufacturer of your computer first to see if they offer it. Was listening to a discussion yesterday about operating systems. One guy seems to think that Linux is going to be THE way to go. So many people seem to be unhappy with Vista (thank god I have XP) and the discussion turned to the many problems Microsoft has. Linux? Apple? Stay with XP? What to do.... If you're fine with XP then stick with it. I've considered Linux except that some of the programs I use for work (design related and expensive!) aren't compatible with Linux at this time... or I'd have to buy new ones. So I stuck with XP. If you do decide on getting a mac, the new mac books make it really easy to dual boot. So you could run both mac o/s and linux or xp.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-11 11:00:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Woo hoo Tinker! There is an end in sight.	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-09 14:20:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	It's 36 C right now (feels like 39 C). Ugh... I thought my 12.5 year old dog was going to collapse on his walk even though we cut it short. I will tell you though that I will NOT miss Ontario winter cold snaps (like when it goes below -20 celcius). When I was here for Christmas, it was 18 celcius!	misa	Female	Canada	2007-08-09 11:08:00