Lists

A lot of spare time has been spent over the last week or so trying to think of everything we will need to do for our application.

This is the result:

Three sheets of flip chart paper, two containing PR application to-do items and one containing miscellaneous to-do items loosely connected to the application (e.g. decorate bedrooms before house valuation etc...).

We've split them up and put a time frame against them for completion - End of March, mid April, end of April etc...

Today is the last day of February and there are four to complete:

• Order Lydia's university transcripts
• Order employment history report from HMRC
• Download list of duties from the Canadian National Occupation Classification (NOC) list - Employment references must state that your job included these duties as part of the application.
• Get details of brothers and sisters (names, addresses, DOB, place of birth) including step brothers and sisters.

How many have we done....... one (the NOC duty list)! Oh dear. Well, that's not technically true. It's more like 3.5 as the HMRC report and the transcripts have been ordered, but we can't tick them off until we have the paperwork in hand. The remaining part is the details of brothers and sisters. Lydia has her side, but I still have to sort out my side, so it's me that's slacking, but I still have this evening to meet the deadline :)

Currently the lists hold 38 items, and there will be more to add (eeek!). Looks like we have a busy few months ahead :)

Progress updates will follow, so at least I'll have something to post about.

Start your engines

July 2012 seems to be fast approaching, so it’s time to get going with the application.

Fresh copies of all the forms have been downloaded in case they have changed, and I have a piece of A4 paper with more ‘to-do’ items than you can shake a stick at. The next few days will see the items on that list formalised and categorised with each category given a deadline.

To-do, to-do, to-do. So much to do.

Watch this space for updates.