It’s Official: I’m Official!

So the day we’ve been waiting 14 months for finally arrived: as of today, February 10, 2009… I am an official Permanent Resident of Canada! Today was the actual day I went in to the Canada Immigration office to be granted the official status.

I know there was no reason to be nervous, but my stomach was doing flip flops all morning. I kept worrying that I would forget some important piece of ID, or the photos I had to have done wouldn’t be perfectly to spec… I was just worrying that SOMETHING silly would go wrong and they’d reject me. It all went off without a hitch, of course, there was just a lot of waiting.

We drove down to Canada Immigration Office and we walked to the government building where we waited for about an hour for my name to be called. We spent more time waiting than the actual “interview” took - I basically went into this tiny room to sign papers and that was it. The woman asked me a couple of simple questions, but they were all things that were listed on the document in front of me anyway, lol. I signed everything and she gave me my copy of the paperwork; this piece of paper I will guard with my life, as it is not only a temporary placeholder for the actual Permanent Resident card that I will receive in the mail in a few weeks, but also something I will need to keep for future dealings with the immigration office. I am legally a permanent resident now.

So ya, it’s been an exciting day! We going to a restaurant called Kelsey tonite to celebrate ...

Pretty SweetBoy