In our last post we indicated that the outcome of The Waiting Game would hopefully be exciting. Well, the UK Border Agency must be reading our blog, because they made the whole process extremely exciting. Possibly taking years off our lives in the process...
On Monday, Bec began a systematic campaign of enquiring/nagging/begging/pleading by both fax and telephone, but was met with the same familiar stonewalling as before: "We can only tell you if your documents have been sent back to you". By Wednesday night, we had all but given up hope, but Bec gave it one last shot on Thursday, and was overjoyed to hear "the application is complete and your documents will be dispatched today".
Royal Mail is usually pretty efficient and guarantees that a Special Delivery, Signed-For package like this will be delivered next-day. But that wasn't going to be enough - we had to be at Heathrow Airport by 11.30am. So Bec got pro-active and contacted our local post office, arranging to intercept the delivery there rather than face an agonising wait for the postman at home.
And so, at 9.00am today, Bec arrived home with our passports, with a whole 2 hours to spare before we needed them to leave the country. Now that is cutting it fine!
Before we head off for Canada, we just wanted to wish all our friends and family a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year.
Friday 19 December 2008
Christmas Is Un-Cancelled!
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2 comments:
2 Hours!!! That's incredible. Well, I hope the rest of the trip isn't quite that exciting! I'm so glad to hear the passports got there in time. Well done on all the nagging and have a fantastic trip. Merry Christmas to you both.
Love Nomi
Ohh, such an exciting, nail-biting, irritatingly unnecessary wait for you!! Stupid immigration people!
So glad it all turned out well.
Wishing you both a fantastically exciting and happy Christmas, and a great start to the New Year.
XO
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