Waiver - Vermont Shipping Delay

[ktmmansgal 0]

Here is the situation --- My husband got his Waiver approval on October 18th, I was sent the official letter instead of him and it arrived about a week later --- My husband was given a letter to gain access back into ton Vancouver Embassy upon Waiver Approval, They told us just bring the letter along with the waiver approval letter on any open day of the embassy -- we already had the fingerprints taken back in March when the initial interview took place so we felt we were set ---

So, since we had has so many lumps and bumps in the road to getting this far I though I would superceed any future bumps by calling the Vancouver Embassy which I was guided to "if" and ony "if" we had further questions. So, I did, they then told me that the Vancouver Embassy had not been notified of my husbands waiver approval and that we were to wait till they got the physical package in the mail from Vermont.

The problem with all this is that my husband is a UK Citizen and because we were married in Canada that is where this process has to take place. So, upon getting the letter and along with the coordination that my husband had to do to close up all his home items in England and quit his job he purchased an airplane ticket to fly to Vancouver from Manchester England on the 26th of November with hopes of arriving at the Embassy on the morning of the 27th to get his Visa Stamp --- with only a week left for possible transfer of the package and the holidays in the middle of all this It will have been 6 weeks by then --- we may be looking at finding some cheep lodging for him while he waits out the time for the package to be delivered to Vancouver from Vermont --- isnt it funny how we have to use overnight mail and sucure ways of getting information to them and they cannot do us the same service to make sure our precious paperwork gets back to the Embassy in a trackable fashion --- I have gotten our Senators office involved and tried to contact Vermont, we have gotten nothing and the Senators office is not gettin too much either --- So, we are looking at likely more money being spent while my husband waits in Vancouver for the package to arrive from Vermont to Vancouver --

So, first does anyone know just how slow the Mail is in Canada --- and then does anyone know of some inexpensive lodging or a room someone might like to rent out while my husband waits out the process up there.

[Ron/Sharon 0]

I'm not trying to scare you just telling how it was for me.

Canada Post is at times very slow unless it is a bill that is being delivered. I hope for your sake they will find a way to get everything to you quickly. Hopefully your letter will be in an official looking envelope or a brown one, Canada Post seems to have this thing about brown envelopes as far as I'm concerned they always get through.

I posted as a test a letter to Dodge City Kansas and it took 21 days to arrive there, then on December 14, 2005 two Christmas presents were sent to Ottawa, Ontario one from Dodge City and the other from Garden City both in Kansas and neither one has yet made it here. I'm sure that if they think it is a bill it will come through in a very few days.

P.S. I never use Canada Post for posting letters or cards, for me it is UPS.

[Married_my_love 0]

So, first does anyone know just how slow the Mail is in Canada ---

MAN it is slow. I am from the US and I can say I will never, ever complain about US mail ever again since dealing with Canada Post LOL.. Also remember, CP doesn't deliver mail on Saturdays, so only count the weeks as 5 days (in US mail delivers on saturdays too).

[TracyTN 237]

Hey girlie - hadn't heard from you in a while so I had to read this when I saw it. If it isn't one thing, its another, eh? How annoying!!! Hopefully you'll get some good advice/info here about the post in Canada. Of course, I have no such advice to offer, but I couldn't pass by your thread without a note anyway.

Cheers - I'll keep checking here on your progress. You guys take care.

[ktmmansgal 0]

Hey girlie - hadn't heard from you in a while so I had to read this when I saw it. If it isn't one thing, its another, eh? How annoying!!! Hopefully you'll get some good advice/info here about the post in Canada. Of course, I have no such advice to offer, but I couldn't pass by your thread without a note anyway.

Cheers - I'll keep checking here on your progress. You guys take care.

Thanks everyone, I spent a couple hours on the phone during the past week and after speaking with the Senators office and the Vermont Service Center as well as the Vancouver Consulate --- I was somehow able to convince them of the urgency of our situation since my husband did not live in Canada and would be jobless and homeless while there --- if we had to wait for the Mail to deliver the waiver package --- I am not sure what happened but it appears that Vancouver will accept faxes and they must have had a portion still at the Vermont service Center and they faxed it and called me to say the Visa was ready --- so on November 27th at approximately 1-:00 my husband will re-enter the Vancouver Embassy and pick up his visa stamp and we will head to the border for Washington to finally be together as husband and wife --- I have not seen him for nearly 5 months --- one week to go!!