mcacmartin
6th June 2009, 12:17 AM
OH and I are suffering from a bit of a dilemma at the moment. I am impatient by nature, whereas he is a little more laid back. Lately though, it seems some of my impatience has rubbed off on him and we're not sure what to do...
Our application was FINALLY submitted and accepted at the end of January. They told us "approximately one to three months" for a decision. We (stupidly) jumped the gun and gave our co-operative housing association notice that we would be moving out at the end of April. The idea had been that we would stay in temporary digs til the blueys came through. We figured his application (PR through family sponsorship...sponsored by me) was pretty cut and dry. Murphy's law being what it is, right before the end of that three month period and right before when we were hoping to get the notice he (and the kids) had been accepted, we got a letter stating they wanted more blood tests done because he was ever so slightly anemic. When I say 'ever so slightly', I mean only JUST outside the range. Someone sure is picking at the MA's office. They also wanted reports from 20 years ago on a double ureter he was diagnosed with that has not caused him ANY problems in 20 years.
Anyway...we submitted the new blood tests and a letter from his family doctor who he's had for 32 years now (!!) saying that no reports existed any more (seeing as it's been 20 years..they would have been shredded at LEAST 10 years ago) and that as there have been no problems in that 20 yrs, that he saw no reason to waste valuable time and resources ordering pointless tests.
Those were submitted and accepted the 24th of April. At the time, we fired off an email from OH to our CO asking approximately how long it would take for the MA (is anyone else astounded by all the abbreviations and letters??) to make his recommendation and the final decision to come through. Our CO in Washington (where they work 3 staff, 3 hours a day LOL) said "Approximately 20 working days".
By our calculations, that should take us to May 21st..or thereabouts. We knew it was an approximate timeline so weren't tooooooo worried about it.
So here's where our dilemma comes in. It's now been 31 WORKING days (and yes I accounted, properly I think, for US holidays).
I've always subscribed somewhat to the old adage "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" and have been known to make phone call upon phone call and send email upon email to get answers. But (!!) in this particular case, even though we are now both horribly impatient and wanting answers, I'm almost scared to bother our CO.
We sent a very polite and light in tone email last week just saying it had been a month and might she have any news on when we might expect to hear something, and got no response whatsoever....from a CO that usually responds within the hour. We've heard nothing.
Do we keep emailing in the hopes that she can give us some idea? Or do we just leave it alone and keep frantically checking our email in the hopes that we'll hear something today. Or now. or now. Or how about now?
Arrghh!! This is such a horrible waiting game! We have til end of August in our temporary digs, but would REALLY like to be in our new house in NZ well before then!
Meg
Our application was FINALLY submitted and accepted at the end of January. They told us "approximately one to three months" for a decision. We (stupidly) jumped the gun and gave our co-operative housing association notice that we would be moving out at the end of April. The idea had been that we would stay in temporary digs til the blueys came through. We figured his application (PR through family sponsorship...sponsored by me) was pretty cut and dry. Murphy's law being what it is, right before the end of that three month period and right before when we were hoping to get the notice he (and the kids) had been accepted, we got a letter stating they wanted more blood tests done because he was ever so slightly anemic. When I say 'ever so slightly', I mean only JUST outside the range. Someone sure is picking at the MA's office. They also wanted reports from 20 years ago on a double ureter he was diagnosed with that has not caused him ANY problems in 20 years.
Anyway...we submitted the new blood tests and a letter from his family doctor who he's had for 32 years now (!!) saying that no reports existed any more (seeing as it's been 20 years..they would have been shredded at LEAST 10 years ago) and that as there have been no problems in that 20 yrs, that he saw no reason to waste valuable time and resources ordering pointless tests.
Those were submitted and accepted the 24th of April. At the time, we fired off an email from OH to our CO asking approximately how long it would take for the MA (is anyone else astounded by all the abbreviations and letters??) to make his recommendation and the final decision to come through. Our CO in Washington (where they work 3 staff, 3 hours a day LOL) said "Approximately 20 working days".
By our calculations, that should take us to May 21st..or thereabouts. We knew it was an approximate timeline so weren't tooooooo worried about it.
So here's where our dilemma comes in. It's now been 31 WORKING days (and yes I accounted, properly I think, for US holidays).
I've always subscribed somewhat to the old adage "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" and have been known to make phone call upon phone call and send email upon email to get answers. But (!!) in this particular case, even though we are now both horribly impatient and wanting answers, I'm almost scared to bother our CO.
We sent a very polite and light in tone email last week just saying it had been a month and might she have any news on when we might expect to hear something, and got no response whatsoever....from a CO that usually responds within the hour. We've heard nothing.
Do we keep emailing in the hopes that she can give us some idea? Or do we just leave it alone and keep frantically checking our email in the hopes that we'll hear something today. Or now. or now. Or how about now?
Arrghh!! This is such a horrible waiting game! We have til end of August in our temporary digs, but would REALLY like to be in our new house in NZ well before then!
Meg