Lynamon

[Mephys 2]

Best of luck for your interview!

[Tinker 0]

Good luck!

[vnoe 0]

Good luck!!! you will be fine!!!!

[Tinker 0]

good luck!

[L_n_O 3]

=) yay

good luck

[sapa_uscan 0]

i know this may be coming late, but hoping all went well and waiting to hear the good news!!!

[Misty1979 0]

Also coming late, but better late then never...good luck! I'm sure you've already been approved and are on your way home:)

[lynamon 0]

Got back today from my interview at 6:30 ... I stayed at the Hotel Center Ville accross the street from the consulate (which was a decent hotel .. parked my car at the open lot beside it and was charged a whopping $23 to park until today) and arrived at the consulate at 7:45 .. when my son and I arrived they did a thorough security check (even rubbed a piece of material over my stuff and put it into a machine to see if there were any residues). My son was a little intimidated to say the least . No nasty lady at security .. a nice looking bald man with a heavy french accent. I had forgotten to take my car door opener off of my keychain so they confiscated it and gave me a ticket so that I could collect it when I was done (no electronics of any kind allowed). I was also given a ticket that said "C" window #9. I was sent down a flight of stairs to a room that had a bunch of chairs (where there were people already waiting) and not 5 minutes after I sat down the nice security guard came down and took the group of us into the elevator. Apparently I was the only one with a "C" ticket and when we got off of the elevator he told me to have a seat and escorted the rest of the people around the corner to the left. When he came back he told me to go to the right and down a hallway where there was window 9 and have a seat. After sitting a few minutes (about 4 more people came in) a lady at window 12 started to collect our tickets and she told us to have a seat out in the main waiting area until called. When my name was called to window #10, I approached and a not so pleasant lady (very petite with glasses, probably in her late 40's early 50's with black hair that had been straightened and long very filed nails) called me to the window. She was upset that I had stapled my stuff and my sons stuff together when I sent back package 3 and I apologized. She collected all of the originals and then the photocopies of the originals for me first and then again for my son and then told me to go and pay my fee (which was out by the main waiting area .. wicket #14.) and then come back and sit in the chair directly in front of her wicket. I went and paid my $200 american (there was a line when I got there) and came back and sat. After a few minutes she called me up to do finger prints and was getting irritated because my pinky wasn't coming up clearly (they use machine readers .. not ink). After that was done she sent us back to the main waiting area for our number to be called .. I told her that I didn't have a number and she told me that I would be called by name. Shortly after 10:00 my name was called to interview room #8 (I had to keep changing seats in the waiting room because I couldn't hear clearly what they were calling with the crying babies and such) and I entered and it was just a small little room and I approached a very nice black lady with short blond hair behind a plexiglass window. She seemed not very pleasant at first and asked how my fiance and I had met. I told her that my sister had been friends with him and I went to Cleveland on vacation with her and her son to do the area attractions with my fiance and his son. She asked me what my attraction was .. I told her it was his personality and that we had spoken on the phone for awhile before I started going to cleveland. She commented on how my son would be starting the new school year and asked him how his dad felt about him moving to Cleveland .. my son said that he was okay with it. Then she told my son that she would give him his visa if he promised to be a good boy in school. He smiled and then she asked him if he was excited about having a new brother and he nodded and smiled .. she was smiley at this point too. She then told me that she would mail to me the paperwork with the xpresspost envelope provided. I asked her if I was approved and she said yes and I asked her if it would be mailed out by Friday and she said it should be and then I asked her if I was done and she said yes and we were out the door by 10:30.

Whew .. then I hit traffic in Toronto from the far side all the way to Hamilton and when I got home there was a message from the Consulate (left at 11:54am) stating that they had forgot to get me to sign something and that we could do it via fax so I called and left my work fax # so I have yet to see what that is all about.

All in all it was an okay experience .. Montreal is beautiful .. was a 10 minute walk to old Monteal from the Hotel .. and then we went swimming cause they have pool. The hotel also put my stuff into a locked luggage room until I returned from my interview.

Yay ... my visa is on it's way (soon at least)

[Tinker 0]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Two people with good news today, might just bawl my eyes out now

[Lance27 19]

Haha I know, Lots of good news out of MTL. Hopefully it will continue. Congratulations Lynette. Hope the visa gets to you fast and your POE experience is just as pleasant.

[Allie 5]

Congrats Lynette We were waiting to hear the good news. We're very happy for you

Good luck and have a safe journey to Cleveland

Allie & Lorry

[Carlawarla 1]

Congratulations!! Wonderful news!

Carla

[Ron/Sharon 0]

I swear you had me on the verge of tears, if I wasn't at work I would have cried because I am so very happy for you since we for a short time were in the same timeline. I am glad that you got through everything without too much stress, now sign that document and get it back to them. Congratulations to you and Ed, your son and Ed's son also. It won't be long now that your present family will double in size.

[Doug n Amanda 0]

Tears of joy filling my eyes .. oh God I'm soooo emotional right now .. overwhelmed with everything right now. I pick up my Wedding dress tonight .. I'll cry when I try it on for the last time before I'm married. My mind is like mush .. making lists and more lists .. will be up to the wee hours tonight to make sure my paperwork is in order .. am sure to have some last minute panick attacks and will be posting I'm sure with my last minute worrys lol.

As I'm sitting here this morning going through how the interview will play out in my mind I realize that I won't be able to smoke ... horrible habit it is but right now it is a crutch ... I'm such an addict! Good think I have a patch to put on so that I don't loose my mind completely .. so much to do, so much to do!

I thank you all for the well wishes with sincere gratitude ... I'll definitely post as soon as I'm able

You made ME cry for you! These are the posts that keep the rest of us going; thank you!!!

I so relate to your emotions (including the smokes, sigh), and the roller coaster ride that's coming to a close for you....congratulations! I'll be on pins n needles waiting for your next post!

[misa 2]

Congrats! Nice to see some positive news coming out of Montreal!