Vichel
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Well, that's it.
All the waiting & preparation & money & stressing & worrying & panicking & lack of sleep .... we're in!
We had a successful interview here in Montreal. Woo hoo!!
As soon as he said Congratulations, both hubby and I smiled real wide and said a little "yay!" but our predominant emotion was relief. It's been such a long process that it's a big relief to finally have it over with. Now we can move on with our plans and just get going. We had moved to Canada just last year, from Oz, and only a week later found we'd been selected in DV2013. So we've been in a bit of a holding-pattern for the past 10 months, not really settling down or making long-term plans. I hated that unsettled feeling.
I've been awake since 3:45am, as I couldn't sleep. I kept wondering what they would find wrong. But as Peta so aptly put, the interview process seemed more like just a formality. I suppose I was expecting to be really grilled, perhaps with some trick questions or something.
The first person who called us up, at around 10:40am, after paying at the cashier, was a lady who just went through and made sure all the paperwork and photos were there. She gave me a bit of a scare because she asked for hubby's education proof but I showed her their letter stating very specifically that only mine were to be brought to the interview. She had to go ask somebody and luckily came back saying I was right. Phew! That was the one thing I hadn't brought for some strange reason, despite bringing everything but the kitchen sink with me! Don't know why.
Then we had to sit back down for about 20 minutes. We got called up again, to another window where a man did the interview and it was mostly him looking through the documents again and typing on his PC. He asked us where would we be going in the US, what we would do there, and since hubby early-retired if he has any income, which we told him about (we didn't have to show proof). And that was it. A bit more typing on the PC, making us sweat some more, and then the Congratulations!
I'm pretty exhausted now but I can't nap. Bit too early for that celebratory big Aussie red unfortunately, so I think I'll just sit here and email everyone I know that we were successful and that they won't have to listen to me whinging about it anymore
All the waiting & preparation & money & stressing & worrying & panicking & lack of sleep .... we're in!
We had a successful interview here in Montreal. Woo hoo!! As soon as he said Congratulations, both hubby and I smiled real wide and said a little "yay!" but our predominant emotion was relief. It's been such a long process that it's a big relief to finally have it over with. Now we can move on with our plans and just get going. We had moved to Canada just last year, from Oz, and only a week later found we'd been selected in DV2013. So we've been in a bit of a holding-pattern for the past 10 months, not really settling down or making long-term plans. I hated that unsettled feeling.
I've been awake since 3:45am, as I couldn't sleep. I kept wondering what they would find wrong. But as Peta so aptly put, the interview process seemed more like just a formality. I suppose I was expecting to be really grilled, perhaps with some trick questions or something.
The first person who called us up, at around 10:40am, after paying at the cashier, was a lady who just went through and made sure all the paperwork and photos were there. She gave me a bit of a scare because she asked for hubby's education proof but I showed her their letter stating very specifically that only mine were to be brought to the interview. She had to go ask somebody and luckily came back saying I was right. Phew! That was the one thing I hadn't brought for some strange reason, despite bringing everything but the kitchen sink with me! Don't know why.
Then we had to sit back down for about 20 minutes. We got called up again, to another window where a man did the interview and it was mostly him looking through the documents again and typing on his PC. He asked us where would we be going in the US, what we would do there, and since hubby early-retired if he has any income, which we told him about (we didn't have to show proof). And that was it. A bit more typing on the PC, making us sweat some more, and then the Congratulations!
I'm pretty exhausted now but I can't nap. Bit too early for that celebratory big Aussie red unfortunately, so I think I'll just sit here and email everyone I know that we were successful and that they won't have to listen to me whinging about it anymore
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