Well you could say it's been a crazy few weeks! My Mum and I went off on a little road trip last week for a week. Visited my lovely Uncle, Aunty and two little cousins (Landon was born 2 months ago and Addy is 2 now :) plus my Grandma on Bowen Island for the first few days. It was great to see all of them, catch up and see that they're settling into their new home nicely. Such a beautiful little island. After a visit with them, we drove my Grandma back to Kelowna and spent a couple of days there visiting other family. It is always nice to be with family and catch up! So it was a fun little road trip :)
You could say that our migration visa for Australia has been a huge pain in the butt. Not the application so much, more the medical side of things. After weeks of many phone calls (which I have now memorized the number, lame) to the Doctor's office trying to figure out how they messed up on it not once, but twice and dealing with a couple of incompetent and unprofessional people, I finally found out they lost one of my forms (the one that's supposed to go with my xray C.D.). So I have had to go and get a brand new xray done and re-do the form with it as well. I have just got off the phone with both doctor's offices and I'm hoping it will finally be sorted and sent off to my case worker tomorrow. And I know my case worker said that once she has the form and as long as everything is clear that she can finalize our visa application quickly after that. So cross our fingers, hope and pray that it will ALL be over and done with by the end of next week!!
So as long as everything goes smoothly from here on, Dan and I are planning to be out of here by the middle of November at the very latest. We are looking forward to moving on with our lives as they have been in limbo for quite awhile now. It has been a very frustrating, stressful and long several months (application has taken 8 months, supposed to take 6 at the most). But hope for the best! We have lots of plans, goals and ideas for our future and can't wait to get going and moving forward. I hope that all of your lives are happy and full.
Cheers for now :)
I can't believe the people in some jobs, losing important documents, after all the money you have to throw at them to get the application processed to begin with. This will be an interesting story to tell your kids. How Mommy made it to Australia! Good luck and keep us posted. We'll miss you so much when you're gone though :( Danielle
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