The one least likely to (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} chinesebomb) wrote,@ 2007-03-01 23:12:00 |
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AARGH Why don't they want me to be canadian
AAARRGGHH I just logged on the website of Citizenship and Immigration Canada to change my address, only to realize that my application for my permanent resident card was rejected!! I won't even know why until I receive the letter. They apparently rejected it on the same day as they started processing it, so I'm hoping that it's because of those sketchily-sized photos. Photos that I took in chinatown for cheap but did not seem to 100% fit the required size. I sent them out anyway but god damnit I should've trusted my feeling. Now it's $50 wasted and I must do it again if I want to get out of the country at all this summer.
Now, let me take a step back and explain to all you lucky CAnadian/American-passport holders re: what I'm talking about here. So once you became a legal Canadian immigrant, i.e. a permanent resident, which I am one, you're required to present this so-called "Permanent REsident Card" when you travel. To be more specific, you show it at the customs when you want to come back Canada.
I, of course, was once a proud owner of such a card. However my extremely ill-fated ownership of said card has ceased because I managed to lose my PR card not once, but twice. The first time it was in my wallet when my whole wallet was stolen; I re-applied and got a second one, which 3 months later was promptly left behind by yours truly on the Amtrak train coming back to Montreal from New York.
Don't even get me start on my citizenship application that's been dragging on for a year now because supposedly some "criminal or parolee of another country" has the same name as me. And the humiliation of doing finger prints to clear my name!! AARGGGHH.
Anyway, it's supposed to be two seperate affairs, I'm just applying for my Canadian citizenship after having being in the country for more than 3 years, and in the meantime trying to re-own a PR card so that I can travel abroad. But maybe Chris is right, maybe my sloppy PR card history made the Immigration Canada officers deem that I'm unfit to be a Canadian.
and to think that all those Lebanese immigrants who haven't been living in Canada for 10 years and have no ties with the country anymore have Canadian passports... not fair.
AAARRGGHH I just logged on the website of Citizenship and Immigration Canada to change my address, only to realize that my application for my permanent resident card was rejected!! I won't even know why until I receive the letter. They apparently rejected it on the same day as they started processing it, so I'm hoping that it's because of those sketchily-sized photos. Photos that I took in chinatown for cheap but did not seem to 100% fit the required size. I sent them out anyway but god damnit I should've trusted my feeling. Now it's $50 wasted and I must do it again if I want to get out of the country at all this summer.
Now, let me take a step back and explain to all you lucky CAnadian/American-passport holders re: what I'm talking about here. So once you became a legal Canadian immigrant, i.e. a permanent resident, which I am one, you're required to present this so-called "Permanent REsident Card" when you travel. To be more specific, you show it at the customs when you want to come back Canada.
I, of course, was once a proud owner of such a card. However my extremely ill-fated ownership of said card has ceased because I managed to lose my PR card not once, but twice. The first time it was in my wallet when my whole wallet was stolen; I re-applied and got a second one, which 3 months later was promptly left behind by yours truly on the Amtrak train coming back to Montreal from New York.
Don't even get me start on my citizenship application that's been dragging on for a year now because supposedly some "criminal or parolee of another country" has the same name as me. And the humiliation of doing finger prints to clear my name!! AARGGGHH.
Anyway, it's supposed to be two seperate affairs, I'm just applying for my Canadian citizenship after having being in the country for more than 3 years, and in the meantime trying to re-own a PR card so that I can travel abroad. But maybe Chris is right, maybe my sloppy PR card history made the Immigration Canada officers deem that I'm unfit to be a Canadian.
and to think that all those Lebanese immigrants who haven't been living in Canada for 10 years and have no ties with the country anymore have Canadian passports... not fair.
