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For the last 2 years my best friend, Alex, and I have been planning a monster visit for this summer. Alex and I have been HLMs since 1999 and she's only been able to come up twice so far. The last visit was 6 years ago. Then, about a year ago our darling little darkling, Claudia, voiced that she would want to come up too if she could. A plan was constructed and the three of us have been working on making this happen for nigh-on a year now.
The only issue we've really come up against is that Claudia is a Mexican Citizen and the Government of Canada are, how to say, kinda douchey about Mexican Nationals visiting Canada. Claudia went to college in California and even then she didn't have half the trouble getting a visa to the US that we've had trying to get her up here for a 10 day visit. The amount of paperwork we've had to submit is insane, and honestly kind of disgusting. *shakes head* FIPPA (the Canadian Privacy Act) would make it illegal for the government to ask me for half the things they've asked Claudia and her family for.
We`ve literally been at this for about 5 months now, the application process I mean, and with the girls due on their respective plane and bus in only 11 days we were starting to chew knuckles with no word back yet from the Canadian Consulate in Mexico City.
That is, until today ....
Claudia is coming ! She got her Canadian Visitors Visa! I am drowning in exclamation points right now!
Alex`s ticket was purchased in March. Claudia has her plane ticket and her Visa now. I`m madly cleaning the apartment getting ready for them. My Mum and Un-Dad are just as excited as we are!
In 13 days I`m going to get 10 glorious days with my two best friends in the whole world, and then another 2 weeks with Alex after the fact.
We`ll be sure to post pictures, videos and maybe even a podcast or two of the visit for y'all so don't feel left out now.
So, today we had some very, very good news.
And now back to cleaning.
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