An inch from the goal!

Today, I received my Confirmation of Permanent Residence. This means that all my applications have gone through and have been approved, and all my fees have been paid.

For some silly reason, you can only get the final visa when you enter Canada—even if you are already in Canada, which means I need to leave and come back again (specifically, I need to cross a land border, so I have to go down to the US border, step across, and step back across), and show my documents and passport to an Immigration agent.

But never mind that. I'll have to somehow organise a strange little trip, hopefully very soon indeed (I'm thinking later this week if possible…which it may or may not be), but my application was granted, and within a matter of days, now, I should officially be a Permanent Resident of Canada.