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Hi everyone,
My husband and I are ready to send our PR application in this week. We´re just working out the payment arrangments. I am French, and the principal applicant. We are applying via the Paris office. We currently live in Albania, for work reasons, bur are finishing up and moving back to France in 2 weeks.
I am actually taking a year-live of absence (YEAHHHHH!!!!) to work on making babies... (I have some minor health issues and need access to a reliable medical environment for this enterprise).
During this year ´off´ in France, I will try to teach English a bit, free-lancing, to make a little money, but I don´t plan on working ´for real´, meaning, be hired, have a job contract, ect...
My hubby will learn French (HA!) and do some IT certification things, but mostly we plant on enjoying a year-off, travel, plant tomatoes, watch the grass grow and eat chocolate cupcakes...
I am still officially employed until August 15th and my application, as stands, states my current working status.
2 questions:
1. Do you think this year-off will hurt our application?
2. My application states my current work status, and then in a couple weeks, that status will no longer be accurate. I mean, I will have to inform CIC of the change of status sometime in August, right? Should I then say ´self-employed English Instructor´? is changing status so soon after submission a problem?
Thanks!
Christine
[18-07-2005,10:49]
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chrisdarm |
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(in reply to: Taking a year leave of absence)
I will be very interested to follow your progress. We have had a very bad situation in our world which is likely going to result in us starting a SW application through Paris all over again. Our start time will be within weeks of each other so I will be anxious to compare our situations.
[18-07-2005,15:14]
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sharon |
Leave absence, to Sharon (in reply to: Taking a year leave of absence)
Hi Sharon,
You mean you have to start all over again?? What happened??? You sounded so close to home-run...!! I´m really sorry to hear that! You´ve dispensed so much good advice through this forum, you deserve a speedy process! what happened?? (Sorry, don´t mean to be nosy).
I am going to the bank tomorrow morning to make the wire transfer. Once I have the proof of payment, I´ll fedex the application to Paris. So tonight, we are going over the forms one last time. I want to re-write my language proficiency statement (I didn´t take any tests). I want to reformat it so it addresses point by point my speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. I am adding essays I wrote, some banal emails, my GRE scores from 7 years ago. Hopefully, that will do! The irony is that, having operated almost exclusively in English for the past 18 years, I actually feel more confortable in English than in French, my native language! But I still have to prove it to CIC.
So, let´s keep in touch and see how things develop for both our applications!
Christine
[18-07-2005,16:17]
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chrisdarm |
(in reply to: Taking a year leave of absence)
long and ugly story. Put it this way...if the situation occured in Canada, people would be in jail. I am hoping against hope that we might get some compassion.
[18-07-2005,17:29]
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sharon |
(in reply to: Taking a year leave of absence)
So sorry to hear that...We have run into problems as well during the document gathering phase. I let you imagine what it takes to obtain police records from Indonesia as a French citizen, while living in Albania. I must have lost half enough hair to make a couple wigs.
Anyhow, today is the day. I´ll let you know once the package is in the mail!
Wish you lots of luck!!!
christine
[19-07-2005,04:53]
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chrisdarm |
(in reply to: Taking a year leave of absence)
make copies of EVERYTHING. good luck!
[19-07-2005,08:02]
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sharon |
(in reply to: Taking a year leave of absence)
It´s in the mail!!!!!! WOW. Deep breath!
I know it´s just the beginning but man oh man....what it took already!!!!
now, let´s keep those fingers crossed, knock on wood, break a few glasses (or is that bad luck?), throw a pinch of salt over the shoulder, and do a little happy dance!!! It´s champagne for us tonight!
I´ll toast to your success too Sharon!
Christine
[19-07-2005,12:05]
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chrisdarm |
(in reply to: Taking a year leave of absence)
can I have some of that champagne too? lets hope they come back with processing times that are much shorter than what they are posting on the website.
[19-07-2005,14:44]
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sharon |
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