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Flames9_RN Grand Master

Flames9_RN   358

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Who is willing to host the online virtual baby shower??? I'll bring the Tim hortons

Canadians Visiting the USA while undergoing the visa process, my free advice:

1) Always tell the TRUTH. never lie to the POE officer

2) Be confident in ur replies

3) keep ur response short and to the point, don't tell ur life story!!

4) look the POE officer in the eye when speaking to them. They are looking for people lieing and have been trained to find them!

5) Pack light! No job resumes with you

6) Bring ties to Canada (letter from employer when ur expected back at work, lease, etc etc)

7) Always be polite, being rude isn't going to get ya anywhere, and could make things worse!!

8) Have a plan in case u do get denied (be polite) It wont harm ur visa application if ur denied,that is if ur polite and didn't lie! Refer to #1

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I'll spring for the racy lacy underthings!

Wait, that might be the wrong kind of shower I'm thinking of ... :devil:

K-1

03/09/2006: Sent I-129F

22/11/2006: NOA2 - APPROVED!

31/12/2006: 1 year anniversary

22/12/2006: Package received from Montreal

18/01/2007: Packet 3 delivered to Montreal Consulate

02/02/2007: Medical Exam in London, ON- Wonderful Doctor/Office

30/05/2007: Package 4 received from Montreal

05/07/2007: Interview date - Canceled by request, [promised a Dec date b/c was 6+mo in advance, note on file

Screwed up my interview date, given NOVEMBER, fixed, promised Dec or Jan

06/02/2008: Interview date, medical now expired! APPROVED!

23/01/2008: New Medical done, WHERE THE @#$%! IS IT, DID THE MAILMAN LOSE IT?! (It arrived 30 min after I left for MTL, 1 week overdue. KISS MY LEFT FOOT, AFTER IT'S BEEN WEDGED UP YOUR HINEY AND LOST IT'S STILETTO, CANADA POST!)

14/02/2008: VISA IN HAND!!

18/05/2008: POE - Harassed by ignorant and incompetent Customs Official who grilled me until I answered that the reason why I broke up w/ my Ex was not to date my USC but b/c he was "impotent from a porn addiction". He also insulted my husband's motives for talking to me, dismissed our 2 years together as "not enough to get married", and otherwise trotted out the Spanish Inquisition.

22/05/2008: Ceremony of cohabitation (Legally allowed to get bizz-ay!)

AOS/AP/EAD

02/07/2008: Filed for AOS/AP/EAD

14/07/2008: Received NOA1

09/09/2008: Transferred to CSC

29/09/2008: EAD arrives in mail w/out notice, AP following week

18/11/2008: Email notice letter has gone out, card ETA: 60 days

25/11/2008: GC arrives in mail! TWO YEARS OF RED-TAPE FREEDOM! WOOT!

When you know, you know!

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MrsCat Experienced

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My Mustang arrived two weeks early. Happy happy right?! :dance:

Well I left the shipping yard this morning and decided, its a beautiful day - I'll take the top down.

Top goes down like a champ. The car is dirty from shipping, so Chris suggests when I get home to wash her. Well I try to put the top up and nothing. Dead. The hydraulic engine that raises the roof is dead. Grabbed out the car warranty - and of course its only good for Canada and the lower 48 states. :crying:

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . . . . . . . . . sigh.

My poor husband worked the night shift and is still tinkering with the motor. He's happy he has project I think.

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My Mustang arrived two weeks early. Happy happy right?! :dance:

Well I left the shipping yard this morning and decided, its a beautiful day - I'll take the top down.

Top goes down like a champ. The car is dirty from shipping, so Chris suggests when I get home to wash her. Well I try to put the top up and nothing. Dead. The hydraulic engine that raises the roof is dead. Grabbed out the car warranty - and of course its only good for Canada and the lower 48 states. :crying:

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . . . . . . . . . sigh.

My poor husband worked the night shift and is still tinkering with the motor. He's happy he has project I think.

Wait a sec... trying to process.. you moved to Hawaii AND you own a mustang? :huh: how exactly did you get dealt THAT deck of cards ? teee hee...

AOS:

2007-02-22: Sent AOS /EAD

2007-03-06 : NOA1 AOS /EAD

2007-03-28: Transferred to CSC

2007-05-17: EAD Card Production Ordered

2007-05-21: I485 Approved

2007-05-24: EAD Card Received

2007-06-01: Green Card Received!!

Removal of Conditions:

2009-02-27: Sent I-751

2009-03-07: NOA I-751

2009-03-31: Biometrics Appt. Hartford

2009-07-21: Touched (first time since biometrics) Perhaps address change?

2009-07-28: Approved at VSC

2009-08-25: Received card in the mail

Naturalization

2012-08-20: Submitted N-400

2013-01-18: Became Citizen

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haha Wow I missed the last 3 pages of this amazing thing...:lol:

Nev- PEE NOW OR DIE!!

krikit and Len- FantASTIC name!

Catty-Hawaii and a mustang? Can we switch places pleaseeee?

"...My hair's mostly wind,

My eyes filled with grit

My skin's white then brown

My lips chapped and split

I've lain on the prairie and heard grasses sigh

I've stared at the vast open bowl of the sky

I've seen all the castles and faces in clouds

My home is the prairie and for that I am proud…

If You're not from the Prairie, you can't know my soul

You don't know our blizzards; you've not fought our cold

You can't know my mind, nor ever my heart

Unless deep within you there's somehow a part…

A part of these things that I've said that I know,

The wind, sky and earth, the storms and the snow.

Best say that you have - and then we'll be one,

For we will have shared that same blazing sun." - David Bouchard

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Krikit Grand Master

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My Mustang arrived two weeks early. Happy happy right?! :dance:

Well I left the shipping yard this morning and decided, its a beautiful day - I'll take the top down.

Top goes down like a champ. The car is dirty from shipping, so Chris suggests when I get home to wash her. Well I try to put the top up and nothing. Dead. The hydraulic engine that raises the roof is dead. Grabbed out the car warranty - and of course its only good for Canada and the lower 48 states. :crying:

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . . . . . . . . . sigh.

My poor husband worked the night shift and is still tinkering with the motor. He's happy he has project I think.

Wait a sec... trying to process.. you moved to Hawaii AND you own a mustang? :huh: how exactly did you get dealt THAT deck of cards ? teee hee...

:lol: No kidding. And a convertible at that. But not so good in the rain anymore. :hehe:

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My MIL is such a snob. She said nothing to me last night and I even tried to get her into a conversation or two, she asked my son how he was, asked my husband how he was. I just wanted to say: "Yea I'm fine too! Thanks for asking!" :lol:

But I am not longer trying with her, and before I did try hard. But last night if she didn't want to talk to me, that was fine I didn't want to talk to her. I have always tried to go above and beyond with her, she'll always find something wrong, she'll never be happy, and I have a hard enough time trying to please my own mom, I don't need to please this woman.

It's so weird, I often wonder how it is to be her because she seems genuinely unhappy most of the time. There's her husband, her son (My BIL), my husband, son and I, and we're all laughing and talking and there's her looking off somewhere else. It's your son's birthday lady! At least try to look like you're having fun.

haha Wow I missed the last 3 pages of this amazing thing...:lol:

Nev- PEE NOW OR DIE!!

krikit and Len- FantASTIC name!

Catty-Hawaii and a mustang? Can we switch places pleaseeee?

I did, I responded in the other thread though. I was scared because of the drinks I had last Friday at the show. :lol:

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Donne moi une poptart!

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thetreble Experienced

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Miserable people really bother me. It must be so hard to be so miserable all the time. You don't owe her anything Nev and she's been such an ####### to you!

Since the summer my dad (senior manager), HR and his bos (the director) have been getting anonymous letters from someone stating my dad has a strange relationship wtih his staff (ie. they are all females and he is too touchy-feely), that the director doesn't know what she's doing, etc.

My dad is a SUPER happy go-lucky guy that is my biggest support in life. I'm definitely my father's daughter and when I left home for university it was really hard for my dad to deal with it. My mum said he even cried a few times. Furthermore when I left Canada he had a lot of reservations about it and wanted me to stay close to him. So nevertheless, all this stuff happening to my dad has been hard on him and made him a miserable SOB. He basically thinks his 30+ years with the government has been ruined, and if he wanted to be hired as a contractor post-retirement, after this gets round, he can throw that out the window.

So as I'm going home this weekend my mum was warning me that my dad has still been in an awful mood and generally just being a mean person. He never says much and when he does, it's been negative. I've seen it first hand in early September and it was just not like my dad.

My mum called me the other night to tell me that he FINALLY came home happy and brought her some home made jam from a co-worker. She said he was whistling. She said that when he heard I was coming home, it really changed his attitude. It was just nice to hear that. I really was not looking forward to going home with him like this.

I worked with my dad for 3 years and so I know exactly what he is like to work with. He is the NICEST boss! He always gives his staff more than what they have encumbered for vacation time and is just really easy going. I hope who ever keeps sending the letters doesn't feel very good about themselves.

"...My hair's mostly wind,

My eyes filled with grit

My skin's white then brown

My lips chapped and split

I've lain on the prairie and heard grasses sigh

I've stared at the vast open bowl of the sky

I've seen all the castles and faces in clouds

My home is the prairie and for that I am proud…

If You're not from the Prairie, you can't know my soul

You don't know our blizzards; you've not fought our cold

You can't know my mind, nor ever my heart

Unless deep within you there's somehow a part…

A part of these things that I've said that I know,

The wind, sky and earth, the storms and the snow.

Best say that you have - and then we'll be one,

For we will have shared that same blazing sun." - David Bouchard

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Hey! And y'all are forgetting that Cat also has the looks of a freaking movie star. I feel like I hate her a little now -_-

:lol: - moviestar not even close. Unless you're comparing me to this Friends episode when Monica's hair frizzes out from the humidity. My face looks like its melting off. I've got a Jacko thing goin' on over here.

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But seriously, I've spent the 3 previous years "vacationing" in Southeast Alaska on the rez (Metlakatla). Rainy, windy, cloudy, 13 miles of roads, and frequently the airline was fogged in due to bad weather and the ferry was broken down. I was due! Chris actually found out he got this job in Hilo 3 days before our wedding. I told him - "you're taking it. RIGHT!" :D

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Mel bought a new hard drive and I want it installed now!! He has to wait until one of his computer genius friends comes over. We have no room on our drive and I can't download anything! I wanna play some games!!! :crying:

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