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Tomorrow it will be five weeks since my immigration application was delivered to the processing center in Buffalo. I read somewhere once (although I can no longer find the page - too many website changes, I guess) that they were supposed to acknowledge my existence, sending me a "yeah yeah yeah, we received your application, now please continue to wait for a billion more weeks" kind of letter, within ten weeks.
Lest you think "a billion more weeks" is unnecessary hyperbole, allow me to elaborate. Checking the Buffalo office site reveals that they are now opening files for applications recieved in March 2003, which is 8-12 weeks ago. So, I suppose I can't expect to have mine acknowledged until August (of which month, ironically, I am spending three weeks in Canada). That's not so bad, though; it's only about a month behind what I was expecting. This is a bureaucracy, after all.
What's depressing is that the timeline for actually evaluating said applications is over a year behind acknowledging their receipt. Thus, if this keeps up, they won't begin assessing my application until September 2004. And from there it can take a number of months or longer, because they may have to conduct background checks (intersecting their governmental bureaucracy with those of the US and California - oh great), I have to undergo a medical exam which they have to evaluate, and blah.
All this adds up to my actually landing (as they call it) in the spring of 2005 at the earliest.
I am gonna die. I just can't take much more of the life I'm living.
Lest you think "a billion more weeks" is unnecessary hyperbole, allow me to elaborate. Checking the Buffalo office site reveals that they are now opening files for applications recieved in March 2003, which is 8-12 weeks ago. So, I suppose I can't expect to have mine acknowledged until August (of which month, ironically, I am spending three weeks in Canada). That's not so bad, though; it's only about a month behind what I was expecting. This is a bureaucracy, after all.
What's depressing is that the timeline for actually evaluating said applications is over a year behind acknowledging their receipt. Thus, if this keeps up, they won't begin assessing my application until September 2004. And from there it can take a number of months or longer, because they may have to conduct background checks (intersecting their governmental bureaucracy with those of the US and California - oh great), I have to undergo a medical exam which they have to evaluate, and blah.
All this adds up to my actually landing (as they call it) in the spring of 2005 at the earliest.
I am gonna die. I just can't take much more of the life I'm living.
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Date: Jun. 5th, 2003 03:45 pm (UTC)From:--m4
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Date: Jun. 5th, 2003 05:00 pm (UTC)From:Re:
Date: Jun. 5th, 2003 06:57 pm (UTC)From:--m4