Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas

I experienced lots of frustration... and that's just a small sampling of it .... but, it's just real life shit and I try not to let real life affect my own little world. ;)

Originally Posted by Canada2006

I think most civil servants* realise that they've a shitty job, but consider the perks too interesting to move to something in the private sector that interests them. (I could tell you things about Belgium but it's so off topic.) Hence, they're slow and make life difficult for others.

* I know some professions are classed as "civil servants" because they're employed by the gov't, e.g. teachers, but they're not bored pen-pushers so I don't consider the above statement applies to them.

Privatise the Civil Service!

Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas

I lived in the UK for 5 years and I never did get an NI number... they kept wanting a letter of a job offer... I kept telling them I was self-employed.

Originally Posted by kt0157

If you come from Canada to the UK you can drive on your Canadian licence for a year, and can swap it for a UK licence within the year. You don't need to have your licence on you in order to drive.

Registering for the NHS is easy, doesn't require an NI number, and there's no moratorium: you can get treated as soon as you become resident. Whereas you won't be covered anywhere in Canada for the next three months.

K.

Originally Posted by Cowtown

The NHS does however reserve the right to charge you if you arrive in the country with a pre-existing condition.

Originally Posted by Mrs Madmac

Well I finally got through yesterday............ not good............. hubby is no where on the system!

Apparently they will contact us within 30 days to investigate what has happened.

(For anyone else waiting ........ the voice mail message on their system is now stating a 16 week wait for PR cards.)

Originally Posted by kt0157

My certificates arrived exactly within the 40 days, which makes me wonder if they print them within 48 hours and then just hold on to them for the next 38 days.

By the way, in case you were wondering, I don't hold the UK police up as an example of competence. The UK police are highly political, utterly mismanaged, and completely misdirected in their priorities (they've got time to investigate reports of the Prime Minister saying "****ing Welsh" but no time to investigate arson, assault and theft by feral teenagers on sink estates). It's one of the reasons I want out of the UK (a reason shared by many on this forum, I suspect).

K.

Originally Posted by stavex

Damn, reading this I'm worried now. Got COPR on October 16th, meant to be flying to the US December 6th. if my card is not through by then, I'm hooped :scared:

Originally Posted by Canada2006

I'm so disgusted by 40 days that I've just complained about it to the Met commissioner Sir Ian Blair.

Originally Posted by dbd33

That made me wonder if one could ever produce Canadian documentation to satisfy the Canadian authorities; by the time the immigration people look at the certificates the Canadian one will cover a period ending eighteen months before.