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Ah well. Maybe a cross-country road trip someday? I’ll tell you about my immigration experience if you want, though I was 8-13 yrs (took ages for the US to let us out). 5 years this month and I still prah-cess my proh-duce, not the other way around.
For sure! I will collect all the tumblr people. I’m sure someone will know how to drive. Ahahaha. I always wanted to do a proper road trip anyway.
I would love to hear about your experience, if you’re willing, for real. That’d be freaking awesome info. But aww the US didn’t want to let you out? Ass holes.
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I dunno I’m being silly now. Here have a smily face. :)
– Leon
Some tips, tricks, and observations, in roughly chronological order:
Why do fingerprint records expire if you still have the same fingers?
Relatedly, why do they even have time to expire? Is it really that hard for whatever Americans are in charge of these things to tell whatever Canadians are in charge of these things that as far as they know we’re not criminals?
If you must be diagnosed with breast cancer (or any other cancer), be sure it doesn’t happen until the day after your official health exam to check if you’re too much of a burden or something. If it wasn’t known* at the time of the exam, they are not allowed to take it into account. (Yeah, we got in on a technicality. Well, Mom got in on a technicality, but we wouldn’t have gone without her. (Don’t worry, she’s been fine for six years, and they declare you Officially Cured after five.) Besides, by the time we got here her treatment was mostly over, so it wasn’t even particularly burdensome.)
*But it was strongly suspected.
You’re supposed to show up at ServiceOntario (or local equivalent) to get your health card within three months of moving, not after. If you show up after 92 days thinking it’s about as early as possible, they will give you a health card, but it will require significantly more awkwardness and line-waiting while they figure out what to do with you.
Cheez-Its in Canada are rarely stumbled across, and when they say “Limited Time Only” on the box they mean it. Live near enough to the border for occasional shopping trips (we go roughly four times a year, 2.5 hours to Buffalo each way) or prepare to go without.
This is probably not at all relevant to you, but if you’re a minor when you apply for citizenship (even if you’re, oh, 17 years and 10 months *whistles innocently*) you don’t take the knowledge test. (Which means I don’t really know much about it, as it’s Not My Problem.)
Our permanent resident cards expire next month, and we haven’t finished the citizenship process (or prah-cess) yet. I’m not sure how we fix that. Should probably ask.
You’d better hope there are ways of renewing your American passport that involve closer places to Manitoba than Toronto, or you’ve got a hell of a ways to go. (On the other hand, once you’ve gone that far Waterloo Region isn’t that much further. We have apple fritters! (Well, I actually like the Kitchener Market’s apple fritter shop better. The fritters taste about the same, but they also sell lángos, which is even more delicious.)) In Toronto at least, you can only start the renewing-your-passport between the hours of…I think it was 8 AM and 10:30 AM (I know 10:30 was the latest), which sucks for our schedule and probably yours as well. (We’ve made the appointment, but it hasn’t happened yet.)
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