Jake Has Landed!

Today was a momentous day in the Huss Family North. Jake and I had an appointment with the immigration officer downtown Sudbury, and after a 14 second interview (it really was only one question: has Jake been charged with a criminal offence since he's been here in Canada -no-) was congratulated with the status of Permanent Residence!!!! TADAAAAA!! A mere 5 1/2 years after he got here, he's become a permanent resident. No more work permits or visitor's permits, yearly applications for renewals of said documents, yearly fees for said applications, no more wondering when things will be finalized, no more pencils no more books, no more government dirty looks! Well, that's not entirely true. The permanent residence card needs to be renewed every 5 years, for the low low cost of $50. However, he might apply for citizenship, which he can do in 2 years. He was given one year off the usual wait time of three years because he's been here for 5 1/2 years already. Before today, he's always said he didn't want to become a citizen because when we read the literature, you had to give up your former citizenship to become a Canadian citizen. In the past two years, they've changed the rules and NOW you don't have to renounce it. He can become dual citizen! That would mean all three guys in my family would be dual citizens and I would be the only girl and the only single citizen. Well, that's not entirely true either. The cat and dog are girls and single citizens too.

So crack open the champagne (coke-a-cola) and celebrate with us!




Oh and an annoying thing the officer informed us about was that Jake's work permits would've allowed him to apply for a HEALTH CARD years ago. Oh well. Good thing nothing medical happened.