ellejay

Hi Michelle,

Our medicals were last Dec 09 and I had previously had a mole removed that when the doctor looked at the pathology report turned out to be a Grade 1 malignant melanoma.I hadn't required any treatment but we were really worried that this may hinder our application. Anyway yesterday we received our passports and visas which was a huge relief! for you Michelle, hope it all goes well.

Ellejay

act1980

Sorry to hear that. I have been told that we have applied under the wrong NOC code but we think it's correct. Time will tell, we may be in the same boat as you in a few months

Coffeepot

Just wanted to bounce this again as lots more updates have come out and its great for others still waiting including ourselves to see how far along the list is,

Sadly nothing here still good luck everyone looks like there are a couple for Oct arrived act1980 so fingers crossed hun

Forgot too add please add your updates etc if you can even if on another thread

Madhouse

What NOC did you apply under?

Alanandson

Hi all,

We received our 90-day update letter on Friday (19th), AOR Oct'07.

Just waiting for my family to scan the letter over here so I can start the document checks and get everything sent off!

Falcore

Congrats and good luck, it finally feels like your getting somewhere when that letter arrives

Alanandson

thanks - it does, after all that time..

I take it you fill out a more 'full' application now, to accompany your docs? I mean, in 2-3 years a lot has changed. (Now Married etc.) and several years ago I had a good grasp of french, (basic) but now it has escaped me, or at least to the point where I wouldn't make it through a basic test, so i'd like to omit that from our application.. I know we will lose points, but that's not an issue, more just I don't want them to expect test results!

Falcore

Yup just fill out the forms that are true to your circumstances now. We added me onto my hubbies aplication as we wern't married when we applied and didnt have commonlaw proof. We just filled out the forms for both of us, included the fee for me and put in with our covering letter that I was being added onto the application.

jericho

We have a July 2007 AOR. Sent all our 120 day stuff off in August last year, and still waiting for medical requests....

Alanandson

hopefully you'll hear something soon , fingers crossed!

I take it you submit the originals, not copies, of documents? It also asks for a 'long' birth certificate. I have my original, but i'll need to find out if this is a long one or not. My understanding is that a short one is just a reference to the actual certificate, where-as a long one is a copy of, or the actual certificate.

Coffeepot

Was just thinking about the stages we go through for the immigration process.

First decide where, Canada New Zealand or Australia well there other countries but they don't count xx
Fill out the application ( which is quite complicated to get your head round esp with non accompanying dependents etc,
Then get the money together and send it all off, then they send it back telling you, you didn't include something that they said was an option in the first place.

Wait patiently for the AOR, wahoo when that arrives,

Then you wait and you wait until you see updates near to your AOR start to collect the info and wait, watching the post, Stalking the postman, ( used to be they were afraid of the dogs ):rifle:

All the while you are talking abut it ( having told family and friends all about it ) till they tell you to shut up about it all it takes over your life, you are addicted to BE and Trackitt and loose touch with the real world, as well of course as reccis and hols to chosen destination, research and as much info on homes schools jobs etc etc.

Then ( we hope ) the update letter arrives and panick sets in as you realise you only have 90 days to get all this info together, esp the police checks by the time they come you have bitten away your nails and gained so much weight from comfort eating you are worrying about the meds

After you send back the update info you have sleepless nights as to weather you sent everything having checked and double checked everything

Then you wait again and wait and wait until you get the meds requests thats if they didn't need anymore info and your police checks are still valid

So you go on a mad keepfit and diet by the time you have your meds done you are anaemic and blood pressure through the roof because of all the worry pay via intravenous banking transfer to the doc for his hour of humiliation sitting in front of him in your best undies ?

And you wait again,

Finally when you can't take anymore and you have seen the 30th person through your house, opening all the cupboards you shoved everything into to hide after your half hour warning from the Estate agent,

You get your passport request providing they are happy with the meds of course.

So you send your passports and sell your house, contents and kids to the highest bidder, loose yourself in a bottle so you can cope with all the stress as many times as you can do without appearing to be an alcoholic

then the envelope arrives with the stamp in and you are exhausted beyond belief and we celebrate, we think its all over but oh no

Then the fun starts you have to beg steal and borrow the cash for landing ( unless you won the lottery ) cancel your life here, friends, family and standing orders pay yet more money for some company to throw your stuff into a container, sort out the pet flights etc etc etc etc so we can have a better life and thats if it all goes according to plan.


please someone remind me why are we doing this

jugapper

This is just too true to actually be true!! I can relate to the majority of this post already, and I just know we will be doing exactly the same as you have put as we move forward in the process....... 'Addicted to BE and Trackitt and losing touch with the outside world' - yep, thats me!

Brilliantly put!!

maxrevs

AOR June 2007; 120 Day Letter May 2009; Docs Received at CHC July 2009

Got a reply to an email in February stating that it was still 'awaiting review' :curse:

Thinking of getting our local MP (Canadian) to chase it up as CHC will have to give full update.

tracys

Very well put. We can only hope it's all been worth it when and if we finally get those visa's!

Coffeepot

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