I think I'll have to put my trip to canada on hold. I had planned to travel from the 20th to the 27th. However, the Home Office has put a damper on those plans. <\/p>\n
We sent in an application for a certificate of approval, which is required to start the wedding registration process. I need that because I'm an evil Canadian and I want to get married on British soil. The forms say that it takes between 3 weeks and 3 months to get it. However, the form says that I can ask for my passport back if I need to travel.<\/p>\n
What the form doesn't say is that it takes 10 working days to get my documents back if I send a fax to ask for them (so it's not even guaranteed that I get the flippin' passport back if I send the fax in today). The request *can* be expedited, but there's still no guarantee that I'll have my passport back on the day I need to travel. <\/p>\n
Also, asking for my passport invalidates my ongoing request, which means that I'll need to submit a new CoA form when I come back. This also means that I'll have to pay another as the application fee is not refundable.<\/p>\n
What I'm thinking of doing is waiting until the last possible moment to see if I get my application through. In theory, they say that it should be resolved within 3 weeks (and it'll be 3 weeks this Friday). If I'm lucky, I'll get everything back in time. If I see that it's not going to arrive, I'll call Air Canada and have my travel dates pushed back. The tickets are not refundable but there is a slight fee to have the dates pushed back (we did this with katy when she came in otcober 2004). <\/p>\n
All signs point that this is going to be one of them weeks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think I'll have to put my trip to canada on hold. I had planned to travel from the 20th to the 27th. However, the Home Office has put a damper on those plans. We sent in an application for a certificate of approval, which is required to start the wedding registration process. I need…<\/p>\n