ForumTitleContentMemberSexCountryDate/Time
CanadaDr. Maureen Stuart
Dr. Seiden's didn't give me a genital exam at all. Hmm...
misaFemaleCanada2007-04-20 22:04:00
CanadaDr. Maureen Stuart
Dr. Seiden's in Toronto was "good" because they seemed uninterested. They were checking "no" to questions before I even answered and their physical exam wasn't much of an exam. :P

They did forget to check off something on my TB worksheet which was discovered at the consulate and was resolved quickly by the office faxing the consulate the required information.

Some doctors (I think most) require the cover letter from your Packet 3 when you go in. They normally don't need it over the phone when you schedule.

Edited by misa, 20 April 2007 - 02:16 PM.

misaFemaleCanada2007-04-20 14:15:00
CanadaOrdering a second birth certificate?
ETA, I'm just going through the Ontario birth certificate thingy and it does have reasons but you can select "other". I'm going to put down "U.S. Immigration" and see if they come. I ordered my short form last July and my long form sometime before the end of the year.
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-01 13:53:00
CanadaOrdering a second birth certificate?

Most vital statistics office don't care how many you order. :) Since you no longer have the original, order another copy. Which reminds me that I should order a second copy "just in case".


In ontario you can only have one birth certificate, dunno about other provinces. I imagine if you try to order 2 in one year, they won't send it, or they'll need to know a dang good reason before they'll send it.


Really? Does it matter which one you ordered? I ordered 2 last year (one short and one long) with no issues. Got them both in a matter of a couple of days. I don't remember ever having to write in a reason for ordering them.

And on a side note, Neiks, Flames and Misa you guys rock. You're always jumping in answering all the confusing questions us fellow Canadians throw out there, even though all 3 of you have already dealt with your own visas and put this mess behind you. All your advice is greatly appreciated!!!


Thanks! :) I'm not done yet though... AOS interview next month. I'm also pretty much tied to the computer all day and I like being here on VJ. :) Well, not the Off Topic forum. :P

Edited by misa, 01 August 2007 - 01:39 PM.

misaFemaleCanada2007-08-01 13:40:00
CanadaOrdering a second birth certificate?
Most vital statistics office don't care how many you order. :) Since you no longer have the original, order another copy. Which reminds me that I should order a second copy "just in case".

Edited by misa, 30 July 2007 - 10:26 AM.

misaFemaleCanada2007-07-30 10:26:00
CanadaBCG vaccine in Ontario
Yep! :)

I asked about the BCG vaccine because there has been some recent discussion about whether or not K1s and K3s will need a TB skin test at the AOS stage (it's unclear... I guess I'll find out at my interview!). I wasn't sure if my scar was due to a BCG vaccination as a baby. My scars tend to keloid so from memory, it sort of looked like a BCG vaccination scar but bigger (but different than a smallpox vaccination scar). I can't see it anymore since it's been completely tattooed over. :P But it appears it is from a smallpox vaccination instead.
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-03 00:28:00
CanadaBCG vaccine in Ontario
Okay, I got 3 responses from friends and family who all say it's a smallpox vaccine scar. I thought they had eradicated smallpox YEARS ago. I mean like way before I was born. :P

But yeah, I'm not going to bother with the TB skin test. I'll just keep my fingers crossed that they don't "require" it at my interview since I am adjusting from a K3.
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-02 23:06:00
CanadaBCG vaccine in Ontario
Allie, yeah, that sucks that you guys had to go through that... for what? The same damn results from the first chest x-ray!

Can you claim any of the $176 on your U.S. health insurance?
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-02 15:14:00
CanadaBCG vaccine in Ontario
It's okay Marilyn! Someone else might see the post and get the info they need. :)
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-02 10:06:00
CanadaBCG vaccine in Ontario

That small dime sized scar on your upper arm? It was for smallpox. It was a vaccination that turned into a scab,and the result is that scar. All children at one time in Canada had that. At some point this did stop immunizing for this though, I just don't know when. My kids, in their 20's, never had it.

Carla (F)


Thanks Carla! You're more helpful than my mom was when I asked her about my vaccinations before my medical in Canada. She said, "How would I remember what you got? I threw out your records a long time ago." :blink: :P

Anyway, I wasn't sure if my scar was from smallpox or BCG. Sounds like it was indeed for smallpox. I was going to get a preemptive TB test but was going to hold off if I had indeed had the BCG vaccine since it would come up with a false positive and then I'd be required by the health department to get a chest xray. Which of course I already had before I came on my K3 and another would come up clear.

I hear you about the whole TB skin test AOS confusion for K1s and K3s. My interview is this month as well and my husband convinced me to not bother getting the skin test and just seeing how it goes at the interview.
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-02 09:55:00
CanadaBCG vaccine in Ontario
Er, okay, my sister says she thinks it might be smallpox. Anyone here born around 1973 in Ontario with a scar on their upper left shoulder? Public health doesn't have any of my records anymore (which is why I needed to get titre tests done for my medical in Canada) and my parents are no help since they tossed my vaccination records years ago.
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-01 20:45:00
CanadaBCG vaccine in Ontario
Hey canucks,

Does anyone know offhand if Ontario required infants to be vaccinated with the BCG vaccine during certain years? I can't seem to find anything about it and thought I'd ask here before I start calling up the public health department.

Thanks!
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-01 19:54:00
CanadaAdjustment of Status on TN-1 Visa
Definitely do not leave the U.S. until you have AP.

Also, I am pretty sure that once you marry and file AOS, your TN will not be valid. You will not be able to work again until they approve you for an EAD (or AOS, whichever comes first). Someone please correct me if I am wrong about the TN. EADs take on average 90 days to get. Some get them sooner but from what I've seen, it's around 90 days.

Edited by misa, 03 June 2007 - 11:37 AM.

misaFemaleCanada2007-06-03 11:36:00
CanadaTouching 485 and not other petitions?
Oh yeah. My EAD was only touched a couple of times - biometrics, change of address and then card production.
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-03 13:12:00
CanadaTouching 485 and not other petitions?
You might want to post this in the AOS forum. Not a lot of us Canucks here did an AOS from visitor status.
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-03 12:51:00
CanadaDoes illegal immigration upset you big time too?

It's also worth pointing out that a sizable number of 'illegals' are people who DID put in the time to do it legally but fell out of status for one reason or another. How many of you would want your spouse deported because your AOS was considered to be abandoned because an RFE was lost in the mail? You'd be an overstay all that time. And technically out of status....


:yes:
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-03 17:02:00
CanadaDoes illegal immigration upset you big time too?

Damn, my wife speaks Spanish fluently!! Maybe she isn't American!! Does that mean I'm here illegally? lol


OMG YOU'RE MARRIED TO AN ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111

:P

My sister speaks Spanish, Portuguese, French and Arabic fluently too. Hmm... maybe she's illegal in Canada!

Edited by misa, 03 August 2007 - 04:24 PM.

misaFemaleCanada2007-08-03 16:23:00
CanadaDoes illegal immigration upset you big time too?

What i dont understand is that north american was built on immigrants...our families had to come from somewhere (unless you are native/aboriginal of course)...so why are people hating on "spanish speaking" immigrants. Someone gave our parents/grandparents/great grandparents etc a chance...so why wouldnt you do the same for someone else. i just hate this elitist mentality.


To clarify the "geesh" comment, it was towards people commenting on hating spanish speaking immigrants, not at you or thetreble. :)

I don't get it either because the attitude towards immigrants is totally different in Canada where it's a mosaic, not a melting pot. I want people to retain their heritage and culture and not "assimilate" like so many other people would want them to do.

And like you, I hate that mentality. I'm a born Canadian but I'll always look like an "immigrant". Maybe I should start speaking my parents' native language wherever I go or put on a thick accent just to pi$$ people off. ;)

Also, I like going into different parts of town and getting "lost" in the sights, sounds, and atmospheres of different cultures. It's like travelling but in your own backyard. :) Okay, not so much where I am here in the U.S. but especially when I was living in Toronto or in larger U.S. cities.

Edited by misa, 03 August 2007 - 04:23 PM.

misaFemaleCanada2007-08-03 16:20:00
CanadaDoes illegal immigration upset you big time too?

The ignorance of people who just "can't stand spanish speaking people" is astounding.


Totally agreed with you as well as GA.

Geesh...
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-03 16:03:00
CanadaDoes illegal immigration upset you big time too?

I can admit I'm petty enough. Considering the time we've been having, it does bother me.

I can't turn sideways without a mexican bumping into me speaking spanish.Send these illegal immigrants home along with their families. Let them "work hard" to make the countries they came from better.


Just because they're hispanic and speaking spanish doesn't make them "illegal".
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-03 13:33:00
CanadaDoes illegal immigration upset you big time too?
Lance27, Sudbury? Really? I didn't find much to do there. I mean, it is a great place to "settle" later in life but kind of far from everything. Unless that's the point. :)
misaFemaleCanada2007-06-17 23:11:00
CanadaDoes illegal immigration upset you big time too?
Well I haven't travelled too much over Canada. Just through Ontario, Montreal, St. John's (not St. John), Saskatoon and Vancouver. I grew up in Toronto but I will say that my favourite place in Canada (aside from "home") was St. John's, NFLD. Everyone was awesome and I liked the laid back feel of the city. I also went to the Ship Inn a number of times including during one of their open mic nights and the local talent was awesome! Second best place would probably be Montreal or Vancouver.

And yeah, it's funny that I grew up in Toronto but the usual Toronto people that annoys everyone else (stuck up, thinks the universe revolves around them and the city) annoy me too! Maybe because I grew up in a poorer area and slowly saw it getting gentrified. Funny though, all the people that annoy me in Toronto aren't even originally from there. They moved their for the big city "lifestyle" (if that made sense).
misaFemaleCanada2007-06-17 20:14:00
CanadaDoes illegal immigration upset you big time too?

Aww c'mon Misa, it is about time we got some controversy going in this branch :lol:


Well if it's controversy you want, we could always start rating provinces! :P

East coast versus West coast.

Or how about just the entire country versus Toronto? :P
misaFemaleCanada2007-06-16 18:32:00
CanadaDoes illegal immigration upset you big time too?
Yeah, I would like to see this in the offtopic forum rather than here.
misaFemaleCanada2007-06-16 13:00:00
CanadaDoes illegal immigration upset you big time too?
I'm not even going to address any of the other issues in this post. I already said my opinion on the first page and I don't really care to elaborate. But I wanted to address the technology portion.

Whenever an overstay of a Visa happens, it could easily go across a national network to track any financial movements or such for that person. We already use this technology to track FBI's most wanted and APBs for the police, so it wouldn't be hard.


Different systems though. The systems in place currently in use for CBP/DHS/USCIS are completely outdated. They only *just* came out with AR-11 online last year and a lot of times, it doesn't do what it's supposed to do (update an alien's change of address). A friend of mine works for DHS as a programmer for border protection. Their systems, as she says, are "a joke".

The ability to create a centralised database exists of course, but the data mapping alone would be a nightmare and would take a long time to actually implement effectively. I don't really see this happening as there are too many agencies that would need to work together to make it work.
misaFemaleCanada2007-06-15 23:53:00
CanadaDoes illegal immigration upset you big time too?
Agreed with what Flames9 said except I haven't been all over the world. Doesn't bother me.

Edited by misa, 14 June 2007 - 10:25 AM.

misaFemaleCanada2007-06-14 10:24:00
CanadaFirst Nations & Immigration
More Information:

INA Sec. 289. [8 U.S.C. 1359]: http://www.uscis.gov...w/slbid/1/2/132
Jay Treaty: http://www.bc.edu/bc...24_2/04_TXT.htm
Pine Tree Native American Unit: http://www.ptla.org/...i/jaytreaty.htm
Wikipedia Entry on Jay Treaty: http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Jay_Treaty
Brian L. Pierson, Attorney specialising in First Nations Law: http://www.gklaw.com...attorney_id=553

Note: Canada does not extend the same rights of PR status to U.S. born aboriginals.[/QUOTE]
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-03 09:02:00
CanadaFirst Nations & Immigration
I hope it helps too! :)

Maybe it should be pinned since it is specific to Canada and the regulations are unlikely to change. How do we go about requesting for it to be pinned?
misaFemaleCanada2007-07-18 17:36:00
CanadaFirst Nations & Immigration
I was looking through the consulate site and found this. Hope it can help some Canadians with aboriginal ancestry who have a USC fiance or spouse.

http://vancouver.usc...cument=applying

First Nations

Aboriginal Canadians who have at least 50% aboriginal blood are eligible to apply for expeditious legal permanent residence at a U.S. port of entry. To apply, you will need to provide the following:

* Your status card
* Your birth certificate
* Two photos less than 30 days old>
* A valid reason for moving to the United States
* Your new U.S. address
* A letter stating your ancestry which includes your parents' percentage of aboriginal blood, your tribal group, and birth dates of yourself and your parents. The letter can be written by your Band Administrator or by a well recognized organization. United Native Nations provides this service as long as you can provide all the necessary information.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the port of entry will issue you Form I-181, which you take to the nearest Social Security Administration office, in the U.S., to apply for your Social Security Number. It is strongly recommended that you apply for your Green Card (I-551) too, because many Aboriginal Canadians, without the card, have experienced problems with their employers. However, they are not required by law to have a Green Card.

For further information, you may contact Customs and Border Protection (CBP), either at the Vancouver Airport at (604) 278-3360 or at the Peace Arch Border Crossing at (360) 332-8512.

Edited by misa, 18 July 2007 - 05:13 PM.

misaFemaleCanada2007-07-18 17:11:00
CanadaQuestions:
Also, she can choose to apply for citizenship a year after she receives her 10 year greencard as long as she meets certain requirements. She doesn't have to but there are benefits. The primary one being never having to deal with USCIS again! :)

http://www.visajourn...ralization.html
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-04 15:29:00
CanadaPolice check in Vancouver Area
Bring government ID with you too (at least 2 forms).
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-02 23:27:00
CanadaNeeding some words of encouragement for Réjean...
Just make sure he has all his paperwork in order. Go through the checklist with him over the phone to make sure he's got everything. Have him read a few recent reviews as well to calm his fears. :)
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-06 09:51:00
CanadaCanada - Assylum rejections
Thanks for posting the article. Found it very interesting. I've been so caught up with U.S. immigration that I should really read up more on Canadian immigration and its policies on refugee applicant rejections.
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-06 13:02:00
CanadaHello! new to forum
Sorry to hear that your CIC experiences have been crappy but defintiely brace yourself for USCIS... and don't bother calling USCIS' 1-800. They're known around this site as the "mis-information line". :)
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-06 15:23:00
CanadaHello! new to forum

I would love to apply for U.S. immigration for my husband while I am still in Canada, but have had 0 income since I moved here and don't have any assets I can use in lieu of that. We will be going the K3 route for my husband. He has a B1 visa for the U.S. valid until 2010 because he used to come and visit me in the states all the time. My parents will not cosponsor at this point. We had a falling out several years ago and we don't even communicate anymore. After I get a job, the income requirement will not be hard for me to satisfy.


A co-sponsor doesn't need to be your parents, it could also be a friend. Is there someone else that could help you co-sponsor? A friend? Another family member? The requirements to meet aren't that much.

If you pursue the K3, you don't have to show the affidavit of support until the interview stage so you could actually start filing for it now. Additionally, if your husband has friends or family on the west coast of Canada, he could potentially be able to interview in Vancouver which is a much faster consulate than Montreal.
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-03 09:16:00
CanadaHello! new to forum
You don't have to move back first before you start the process. You can start the process now and use your current Ontario address (you just can't do DCF since you're technically still a visitor but you can still file to the U.S.) OR use your parents' address in the U.S. (make sure they are speedy with mail and let you know when things arrive). If your parents are cool with it (or other family in the U.S.), they can co-sponsor the affidavit of support for your husband since the consulate will want to see U.S. income.

It will still take awhile since he will be interviewing in Montreal but not years.

Hope this helps!

Edited by misa, 02 August 2007 - 11:16 PM.

misaFemaleCanada2007-08-02 23:15:00
Canadaall names?
Yup, all legal names ever used need to be checked and documented:

- maiden name
- former married name (s)
- any other name used

Edited by misa, 04 August 2007 - 10:14 AM.

misaFemaleCanada2007-08-04 10:14:00
CanadaCross-continent road trip

Eeps, $1000 drop-off charge is pretty steep!


:yes: Which is why we had to coordinate renting two vehicles. Toronto > Buffalo and then Buffalo to VA. It worked out well and we didn't have to shell out that non-refundable drop off charge!
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-05 21:33:00
CanadaCross-continent road trip
Not sure how much this helps but you can do pick-ups and drop-offs between Toronto and Buffalo for free through the major car rental companies (Hertz, Avis, etc.). If you go this route, you'd have to pick up in Toronto, drive to Buffalo, drop off that car, get another one and then take it back home. You'll also have to check if that rental company will charge you or not from Buffalo to your home state for drop off.

This is pretty much what we had to do when I moved here. Rented a car from Toronto, dropped off in Buffalo, picked up another in Buffalo and then dropped it off in Virginia when we got here. It was the only way we could avoid a $1,000 non-refundable drop off charge.
misaFemaleCanada2007-07-30 21:58:00
CanadaLen's ranting time....
Ugh, sorry to hear about the frustration. Believe me, we all here understand! Vent away. And when you're done, vent some more! People who aren't/haven't been through this just don't understand how our lives hang in the balance while waiting for approvals, packets, interviews, etc.
misaFemaleCanada2007-08-05 13:12:00