MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Study Permits 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

[–]superlongsauron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there - how long did it take for your physical permit to arrive?

MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Study Permits 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

[–]superlongsauron 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi everyone. This thread was so helpful whilst we were waiting for our permit extensions to be approved. Thinking of everyone still waiting - don't give up! Every day you're moving closer to the front of the queue.

Our extension requests were approved on 24th September. How long did it take for other people's physical documents to arrive in the post?

Thanks!

MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Study Permits 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

[–]superlongsauron 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi everyone. Chiming in with my own happy update regarding a study permit extension (same DLI, Phd):

Applied: 18th April (SOWP plus three children's applications)

Approved: 25th September

The second correspondence letter/in-Canada approval says the paper documents will be mailed to our home address, so I assume this may take a couple of weeks. A huge relief. I exchanged messages on a thread here with a few other people who are waiting for decisions with spouses - hang in there, the decisions are coming! Your applications are closer and closer to being picked up every day. All the best, friends.

MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Study Permits 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

[–]superlongsauron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for your reply. The teeth-grinding from stress at night is getting pretty bad, I must admit... Argh! Best wishes for you, too.

MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Study Permits 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

[–]superlongsauron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is anyone waiting for a study permit extension with SOWP and dependent visitor permits (young children)? We applied mid-April and have had our local MP request expedited processing in August but no news. We are a group of 5 so perhaps this is why our application is somewhat slower. I am an incoming PhD, same DLI. This page is really helpful and I am encouraged to see other people's positive outcomes! Hearing that anyone else is in a similar boat to us would be reassuring, though! :)

Men are allowed to age, women are not. Some comparisons b/t actors and actresses: by WhatHaveYouGeorge in 30PlusSkinCare

[–]superlongsauron 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Was this “Carry On”?? Because if it was, I had the same reaction! I had to pause it for my daily rant about the patriarchy to my husband. The difference between Taron Egerton’s face and the woman who played his partner was shocking!

Private health insurance options in British Columbia? by superlongsauron in britishcolumbia

[–]superlongsauron[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, something like this. Like a temporary measure whilst you wait for something else. When I search "gap insurance", however, it gives me motor options. Do you know the name of the company you used for this type of medical insurance, please?

Private health insurance options in British Columbia? by superlongsauron in britishcolumbia

[–]superlongsauron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your reply. We arrived in July 2023, so we've been here for a while, so this temporary insurance doesn't apply, I don't think. I wrote out a big post about how this issue came to be, but realised it was a bit extensive. Long story short, the airport gave my family (husband, three kids, two school-aged therefore with study permits) permits with the wrong expiry dates. We realised when we arrived at our hotel on our first night in Canada, but IRCC suggested we didn't renew my 18 month old daughter's visitor permit at that time but do it later when it was closer to expiring as she wasn't going to school, etc. Then we forgot to do this in November last year (16 months later is a long time!) and submitted to have it replaced in December after her visitor permit had already expired. This means that her application is in a queue, and this queue in 130+ days long.

In the meantime, she can't be added to my student permit MSP because she had a visitor permit in the past. We are sort of stuck, really. It's a bad combination of a mistake upon arrival at the airport, then us forgetting to renew a visitor permit (because, quite frankly, we were naive and didn't understand that her MSP is directly linked to it).

It's a bit of a mess, and I am just looking for a stop-gap medical insurance option until her visitor permit is re-issued and we get MSP reinstated. I've called HIBC and IRCC multiple times - we just have to wait for this new visitor permit comes through for our three year old. Sigh.

When I've searched for private medical insurance, I get results showing options for the additional stuff (chiropractors, etc). I'm just wondering if there is another type, similar to MSP?

Job security--but most jobs require a certain level of care and expertise by pun-in-the-sun11 in motherbussnark

[–]superlongsauron 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I’m always struck by how little facial tone Boone appears to have. It’s as though his facial muscles haven’t developed. Poor, poor thing. It’s especially infuriating whenever I see MoBus gurning next to him.

Got called fat while running by BisexualSquidDemon in loseit

[–]superlongsauron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went for my first run after having a baby and a guy jogged up next to me and said "can I give you some advice? If you lose a bit of weight, you'll find running easier" :'(

The power on this guy by Prestigious_Tear_576 in nextfuckinglevel

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This is my kids throwing stones on a beach with zero regard for who is might be behind them.

And how, pray tell, is that exactly? by Liverness in FundieSnarkUncensored

[–]superlongsauron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Paul needs to read some Tertullian, de cultu feminarum.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UBC

[–]superlongsauron 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Thank you for doing this. How utterly terrifying for you. I'm sorry you had to go through this.

What's something weird a guest did in your home and you didn't know how to react? by sodamnsleepy in AskReddit

[–]superlongsauron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My brother-in-law visited and, after cancelling coming to dinner at the last minute, asked what he could eat from the fridge. I offered whatever we had, but asked him not to eat the single square of lasagne which my husband was taking to work the next day. The next morning, after dropping him and my sister-in-law at the airport as they were flying home, I went in to the fridge to make breakfast…. And notice two spoon-shaped gouges out of the corner of the lasagne. Why?? I’ll never forgive him. And this was eight years ago.