Last night JJ heard from The Visa people - see I made them sound as super life-changingly-important. We weren't expecting to hear from them for ages and even last night we'd been talking about pushing the honeymoon back 'till Spring. After our delay for more information we were going by their website claims suggesting we might not hear anything for up to 60 days while they processed all the extra bits. Apparently we were being cynical in our thoughts and last night we heard that the stage one petition for my visa had been approved!
Because of the visa was "suspended" for two weeks while we went around crazy getting all the information - the crazy American sized pastport photographs and so on, we thought we'd missed the 5 month average. Perhaps not! Even with the detour we've come in under the five month part one average which is rather impressive, well four months, three weeks and two days if we're wanting to be spot on.
No one at work really seems bothered about our news, at my end at least - for some reason they seem all against me going or perhaps think I'm going for the wrong reasons, yet other changes at work show i'm very much replaceable and the job I have was never on my plan. But that's another rant for another day. Maybe they think I'm nutters for upping and leaving everything; going to a country I've never visited, leaving friends and a job behind. My response is that life's merely too short not to go.
So the next steps all are down to me. I get so nervous and scared I'm going to mess this up - the future rests of me doing this right and there's three parts of it going wrong; a police check, medical (the scariest part) and finally an interview. Gah all so big and scary. I know I should tackle every part individually and do it step by step just to get my head around it rather then stressing like I am. Luckily some of the real life cases I've read about have stories stating people have been able to get through this last stage within eight weeks - so maybe, just maybe in three months (after working my boring notice out) I might, just might get to move. Here's to hoping but for now I'm just thankful we got through the first stage!
This news has totally set off my weekend, shame i'm working tomorrow and Sunday looks like a total washout! Have a lovely weekend xx