Visa approved!

jg_am · December 17, 2006

Hi gang. I wanted to let you all know my fiancee has her visa as of Friday! I'll try to post what I can as we just got back from Montreal. I'll post a review when I'm home next week.

We got to St. Eustache on Tuesday to stay with some friends of Ashley's. We went to see the cross street of the consulate to see where it was and we realized we forgot the interview letter. D'oh! Her parents we going to courrier the package until we found out it was $400 for a same day delivery. They were willing to drive and meet us half way. We thought how much it stunk to get this far and forget the piece of paper that would let us in the building. We had the letter faxed to our host's work praying that would work. We went to the consulate the next morning and a woman came out to ask why we where there. We explained the situation and she said not to worry about it and to show our passports the next day. God is good! All this worry for nothing. The fax worked fine and no one questioned it.

Her interview was at 9:30. We didn't get there until 8am. I laugh about the elevator comments b/c I pictured a huge cargo elevator and it was small. I also wanted to say I got in with lip balm without a lable and someone had a nice bag with their documents. We were the only ones with the plastic bag. When we were called, Ash submitted her documents while I paid. We waited a bit to be called for the interview that wasn't until 10:20. I went in the room and was allowed to stay. The guy said her police report was flagged because it didn't show Canada wide but the interviewer saw it did so he didn't see any problems. He asked the "official questions" first preceeded with,"Are you nervous?", apologized for the delay, asked if this took longer than we thought it would. The guy was friendly. After the criminal/border crossing questions, he handed her instructions on what to do next. He then asked the personal questions: how we met, why the States instead of Canada, what I do for a living, what her folsk thought of her moving to the US. He asked me why I went to Montana. Asked one or two more questions, and gave her the papers to sign and said to come back at 2:30 the next day. When we got there, Ashley didn't have photo ID since we left her purse in the car. Panic sets in again. They let me in to get it and now we have it and I'll move her in February and we can get married on March 3rd!

Thanks again for everyone's prayers and support throughout this whole process.