2nd Stage Lodgement Completed

Finally our application for Permanent Residence in Canada has been lodged to the Canadian Embassy in Berlin. It got a bit exciting in the end as the results of my IELTS test had not yet arrived at the Migration Bureau London Office, they were supposedly send by MacEwan College here in Edmonton. Obviously Canadian and British Mail service is slow, document was sent on Friday September 4th. So last Wednesday I decided to sent my original test results with Fedex to London, where it was delivered on Friday morning 11:09AM London time, setting us back $80 for ONE letter. JIT=Just In Time and what in eighty bucks on 30(?) some years. Our application was initially lodged to Berlin on February 4th 2007, registered on May 11th 2007, responded to on May 22nd 2009 and completed on September 21st 2009, exactly within the 4 months CIC timeframe. Now the wait for the medical has begun, and I am really hoping we can go to the US border this year to make a U-turn to re-enter Canada and obtain our PR-status. If and when that happens it took us 3 years and 6 months from original idea in Brasschaat to actual obtaining the Landed Immigrant Status and bear in mind they call this the simplified application. You have no idea how many documents, forms, translations and exhibits we have provided and produced in the past 3 years and I must say most of the time it was fun to do, sometimes digging in the past like this shows how your life has evolved and progessed. And with that I now realize how important a proper education is, cause thats the base of our immigration. Who would have thought you needed that again at the age of fifty bloody one. Next step? Canadian Citizenship? Who knows!