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Friday, April 11, 2008

Fantastic News!  
11:19 am | Fun With Immigration

We’ve been approved at long last and are now just one flight away from being Legal Permanent Residents of the USA!

Our passports and the Mysterious Brown Envelope will be landing on our doorstep either tomorrow or Monday, and we can leave as soon as the house is sold.

J should also be signing off on the Vegas house any day now, after a couple of delays caused by the first loan company giving us the royal shaft and changing the conditions constantly. We wound up getting a much better deal elsewhere.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Relief At Last  
10:02 pm | Fun With Immigration

So yesterday was particularly shitty. Not long after I posted the last entry, I discovered that my next door neighbour had passed away. He was a lovely man, and he will be missed.

This afternoon I called the clinic again to learn that our files have been forwarded to the Consulate, and this evening, the doctor called. We are somewhat concerned because of TJ’s history of mental health problems, including a few brushes with the police. He has no convictions and hasn’t been in trouble since he was 14 and she informs me that she’s worded it all as nicely as she possibly could, and has stated that he now appears to be a normal, settled, amiable teenage boy.

Of course, I won’t rest until we get our visa’s in hand. Which blows, because I’m physically and mentally exhausted at this point.

Monday, April 07, 2008

Just A Little Pissed Off ...  
11:00 am | Fun With Immigration

With just 2 days left to the 5 week mark after our interview, the medical still hasn’t been forwarded to the Consulate.

It turns out they were waiting on notes regarding TJ’s ADHD/CD (which he has since outgrown). Notes that when I called, they already had. The doctor called me back last Tuesday and told me she needed to ‘clarify’ a few things with him and asked that he call her back on Thursday. We did so and there was no clarification. She informed him of what was in her report, and that was that. While we weren’t happy with what she had to say, we were glad it was over and that she could finally sign off on it.

So imagine my surprise today when I call and it still hasn’t been signed off or sent on. I was told that ‘extra requirements take time’, but I don’t buy it. They’re just fucking slack.

I would not recommend CityMed in Auckland to anyone. I’m told the doctor in Remuera is cheaper and less invasive.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Medical Mishap  
11:19 am | Fun With Immigration

2 weeks has come and gone since our interview, so I called the Consulate who are apparently still waiting for our medicals.

So I called the doctor’s office in Auckland and was told that the only thing they were waiting on was TJ’s vaccination history. I informed her that we hadn’t been able to provide a full history for any of us, so we’d all had to have the jabs we couldn’t prove we’d had. TJ had MMR, Polio and Dip-Tet injections. She looked it up and sure enough, there they were. So the only thing we’re waiting on is for the doctor to sign off on it, and the doctor’s not in the office today. $1281 and they can’t offer a timely service?

Hopefully we can get it sorted tomorrow, but considering we’re about to start our Easter break, odds are, it’ll be another couple of weeks before we get our passports back.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Stupid Man  
01:23 am | Average Kiwi Girl » Marital Bliss

So my husband broke the cardinal rule.

He informed me that I was only angry at him because I was PMSing. His calendar said so.

First of all, is it scary that even though I haven’t seen him in 15 months, he still knows my menstrual cycle better than I do?

Second of all, what makes him so damn sure that it’s PMS and that he’s not just an ass? I have plenty enough on my plate with fixing up this house and dealing with the kids, while he sits there constantly offering his bright ideas and criticisms. I have every right to be mad at him, PMS not withstanding!

So tonight, I threatened to send him the kids the second their passports arrived back from the Consulate. He told me he thought that was a good idea.

Apparently, he’s in crawl mode.

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