Tuesday 10 July 2012

Paper, Paper and more Paper (plus some money)!!

We have finally got all 6 of our passports so I decided to get the other paper work done today. Little did I know that it would take almost the entire day to complete. By the time I had completed 2 work permit applications, 4 study permit applications, a family information form, copied passport information pages, exchange certificates and an Authority to Release information form and cut out 2 passport photos for each of us (12 all together) it was getting dark outside. I had to make numerous calls to Central Office to clarify parts of the forms with the Exchange coordinator which slowed the whole process down. I think I also emailed the coordinator a couple of times as well! Now I need to organise the bank cheque to pay for the applications (a small fortune added to the other small fortune we spent on passports) before I drive them all into central office for processing. Hopefully, if all goes according to expectation, we should get our permits in 6 - 8 weeks.