(Feb 2012)

On Saturday we received a letter from Canada Immigration in Nova Scotia.
To summarise, they have checked over our visa application and are happy with the details we have submitted regarding Ailsa's work experience and qualifications.
This is known as a Positive Eligibility Review (PER)
Our visa application will now be forwarded to the London Visa office for further proccessing.
Presumably in London they will check the ligitimacy of Ailsa's qualifications, and possibly check up on her work history. Also check our family's history and police reports etc for accuracy.
If that goes ok, then the next step will be a request for medicals. But I'll update you on that stuff if and when it happens.
House update:
New bathroom suite is in and leak-free, after a few failures, lol. Bathroom sealant is your friend! Still to sort out some flooring and maybe some tiling.
I have another batch of laminate from Ikea, so should have the downstairs finished in the next couple of days.
The skip came and I pulled down the garden shed. Didn't realise how big it was till I hammered a wall away and the roof tried to get me, lol. I packed the skip carefully so as to get as much in as possible. Job complete, skip away. Garden is now a boggy mess.
Was thinking of putting down some wood chips, but I reckon I'll just flatten it and throw some grass seed down. MUCH cheaper, and folk still like a bit of grass in their back garden. Ummm, that sounds rude, well, does to me, lol.
Ailsa is currently over in Burlington doing some training. She got off the plane in Toronto and Art met her, first stop Tims, before even leaving the airport. ;-)
She's loving it all over again and she says it now feels like home. Wish I was there :-(
She's off to Niagara today as it's a holiday Monday in Ontario, so I'm going to try and catch her on the Niagara Falls live cam.
I now have a large collection of Facebook friends in many areas of Canada. They make life so much better for me, sitting in our tiny house watching the rain bounce of our windows, I know there's good things to come, so thanks guys :-)
I feel pretty bad for some of the folk on the forum who applied last year but have been denied, because of caps being reached etc. I really hope their job is on the NOC list in July so they can re-apply and get the ball rolling.
But it's hard not to be excited. Our application is moving along quite quickly and I am hopefull for a completion date before December this year. If we have sold our house, we could be in a position to get over there for Christmas!
Right, back to work for me. This floor aint gonna lay it's self, although I have on occasion told it to go f*** itself ;-)