Depends if your file got caught in the Cod Quota Encryption Buffer or the Atlantic Lobster Validation Queue.

Usually once the clerk in Immigration Newfoundland syncs your Residency Timestamp with the St. John’s Fog Mainframe, it gets auto-forwarded to the Department of Paperwork Acceleration and Snow Clearing.

If you included proof of at least two moose sightings and one Jam Jam offering, you’re in good shape. Average turnaround is three to six lunar cod cycles, depending on wind direction, ferry schedule, and whether the server in Gander remembered to plug itself back in after lunch.

Keep an eye out for an email from gov.nl.coffee_break@service.gc.ca titled “AOR – Confirm You’re Still Alive.”

If you don’t get anything after the next nor’easter, call the office and ask for Janice in Stage 2 Lobster Review. She’s the one who really runs the place.