Saturday, April 28, 2007

Oh, Please Move On, My Best Friend

After Mr. Han finished his haircut in my apartment, we had a not short talk about the Canadian immigration. The cause is the acquisition of my Bank Reference Letter in this morning because we never beleive it would come into being so soon and easy.

Mr. Han said he was denied again by his wife when he tried to get some opinions from her about Family Canadian Immigration. Therefore, he was totally obsessed into swamps because of the conceptual conflicts between he and his family.

I had nothing to say except three questions before I expressed my mercy and disppointment.
Here are these questions:

1) Is Canadian immigration valuable to each member in your family?
If not all members can benefit from this plan, try to make a weighted overall assessment.

2) If this plan is valuable to whole family, who has the power to make the final decision? Is the guy who is more insightful with broader viewsight about the world trend or not?
If the authoritative guy is you to make the final decision and burden the future of whole family, you should act like a man to find ways as more as you can to keep this opportunity! No matter in the name of whole family or you alone!

3) If you apply alone, does it absolutely mean that you want to abandon your current family?
If not, why you are so hesitate to take actions to apply it yourself?

Friday, April 27, 2007

Bank Reference Letter Issued Today!

What a shiny day and my mood flies in the sky chasing the clouds!
Since the bank on campus did not provide the reference letter service, I went to the nearest branch of this bank network. It's nor far away from my apartment, about 1.3 miles, I think.
A very kind elderly man ushered me into the bank hall and told me where I could wait for the service. Soon after a while, a young man, the branch manager I knew later, accepted me in his office before he understood my purpose, then he explained to me no formal services for the intention I required could be provided there but he intended to type a letter for me to confirm my today's account balance. Wow, how nice he was!

Add some gas. The shit price is climbing up to $2.89 per gallon!

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Education Reference Letter Request Emailed To Jan Today

Because of the damn paper assignments, the stubborn emotionless inaffable professor Elliott designated, were coerced to submit before Wednesday evening, the Education reference letter request email can not be sent to Jan until this evening.
Hope nice Jan can facilitate the procedures and finish this letter for me as soon as possible.

The request is for me, Jia and Han respectively.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Canadian Buffalo Consulate General Replies!

In response to my questionaire, Canadian Buffalo Consulate General sent an email to answer my question about how to pay the application fee in US dollars (USD)!
If I am in USA, I can pay the fee by USD, the amount is 470 per person, so I need to get a money order of 940 from my bank.
However, if you check the current currency exchange rate on Yahoo website, you will find 940 USD only equals 1056.56 CAD. What a bargain!

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Oops! Michael Ren Did It Last Year!

Wow! Gorgeous!
Michael had already accomplished the Canadian immigration application!
Asked him a lot of questions and he told me his process was done through an agent. In total, it costed him 1800 for the agent fee and 10 months to get the medical checkup forms! How fast!

When I told the exiciting news to Mr. H.JL, he was also very excited. Hah, will he change his idea again!?

Yep, 10 months! Can you imagine it if you apply in China?

Also, No IELTS test! Michael told me thereafter he was not required to submit the IELTS result because he enclosed a reference letter from the graduate school certifying his eligbility of a full-time student and future MBA degree.

However, he also told me that my bank account balance statement can not meet the standards of the Canadian immigration officer, so I need to get a new Bank reference letter from my bank!

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Happy Birthday, Z.L

It's my birthday, I almost forget it!
This morning a congratulation email notified me, oh, I am 33 years old!
Happy or sad?
Excited or gloomy?
Anyway, Birthday happy, old man!

Employer Recommendation Letter Revised

There are some weakness in my old Employer Recommendation Letter, such as no income mentioned in each of my past working periods and my job classification is not very clear.
Downloaded a PDF password remover software in the morning and removed the constraints of the documents, then all fonts properties can be adjusted in these application forms, is it wonderful?
Tomorrow I should get the certified check done in USBANK and the passport copies should also be ready before the application be deliveried.

Mr. H.JL Quit the Canadian Immigration Application

What a pity! I lost a good accompanier at the just beginning of the long journey.
Anyway, everyone has his own will!
Wish him a good future!

Monday, April 16, 2007

FBI.Clearance.Received

Very lucky, the same day received the FBI criminal background clearance.

The third batch of Notaries received, wonderful

including the

Jessica.Employment.contract (Chinese/English)
Jessica.Diploma of Yangzhou Educational College
Jessica.Band 6 of College English Test
Jessica.Computer level II Certificate

Bank Account Balance Statement Issued

Got the Account balance official receipt from USBANK.
When I took the first look of the receipt, I was dubious about its availability.
Is that what I want to certify my eligibility of enough settlement funds? There is no name on it, no bank stamps, and the currency is US$!

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Chat about the landing location with Mr. Han JL



Vancouver, Calcary, Edmonton,
Winnipeg, Toranto, Ottawa or Mentreal?

I prefer the west part of this colossal land which is theoretically close to my homeland, however, I am still hesitant with the final decision, Vancouver, Calcary or Edmonton?

One is the most beautiful city in the world and has the delectable weather while the other two provide more occupational opptunities. I know I should take account of the determinants based on my own case which are the convenience of future education to Jessica and more chances to earn money for myself.

So, it seems Calcary is better for me.
Nonetheless, Vancouver is closer to Seattle which means you can find a job in U.S. easier and much more convenient? I doubt it.
Anyway, you can change the resident city as you wish. So, now, take it easy.

3rd Batch of Notaries Consigned today



From Nanjing by Jessica, anticipated reaching St. Louis by next Monday.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

My namecard


Printed Online, 250 pieces, with an advertisement on the back, so print for free with $5.55 delivery fee.
And, it will take more than 21 days to reach you.

You can find the website here http://www.vistaprint.com if you have interest.

Wow, it begins

A new home.
To record our life trikles applying for the Canadian immigration processes.
Me, Li ZENG and Jessica, my wife just began the preparation a few months ago, everything is at just the beginning.

Monday, April 9, 2007

Third batch of Notarized documents

Jessica.Employment.contract (Chinese/English)
Jessica.Diploma of Yangzhou Educational College
Jessica.Band 6 of College English Test
Jessica.Computer level II Certificate

total cost: RMB 640.00

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Get fingerprinted and record request letter delivered

Yesterday I failed to get my fingerprint at the UMSL police office, because they don't provide that sort of service.
Searching on the internet, found the closest county police office is Cool Valley and successfully get my fingerprinted document. It's free and the some fat guy is very nice.
If you want to have your fingerprinted document be made by private organizations, it may cost you U.S. 94 bucks.
Consequently, I drove to the nearest postal office and purchased an 18-dollar money order then mailed the request letter to FBI.

total cost: (U.S. $)
Money order 18.00
delivery fee 14.00

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

My! Review & scan all the notarized documents

Can you believe that there would be obvious faults in the notarized empolyement contract?
The Chinese text is absolutely different with the English text in Jessica's employment contract!
What will Canadian immigration officer think with the exposure of the self-contradictory document?
Are you too absentminded, Jessie?

Monday, April 2, 2007

Back to St. Louis, with Mr. Lu

Damn!
Regret taking Mr. Lu's sedan from Nanjing to Shanghai PVG. Not until 5 minutes before the close of the checkin, we arrived the counter of the dock. It's terrible to describe how urgent and dangerous it is when we were on the highway!
Can not imagine if I missed the airplane back to U.S., what would happen to me. You know, absent courses, complicated assignments, imminent group discussion and etc. will drive you mad.
Notwithstanding, lucky enough, I am on board in time.
But, remember, never, never, never...
Never to take the same schedule with Mr. Lu again!