Can It Really Be True?

It's hard to believe. If I didn't know better, I would have expected it to pop up on SETI before I got the news. Actually, It's quite amazing to recieve news from something you startet to doubt existet. Like a religious person starting to disbelieve and then recieve direct word from his or her god(s). About 18 months ago, Katrin and I launched into a project that took us to unknown lands. The lands of the waiting. We submitted out immigration application to the Canadian High Commission in London thinking that in this day and age, we would be able to track the process somehow. I read about the "e-client", and believed that it would change once in a while, when the application moved from one desk/person to the next or something. We were badly wrong. Untill this morning, the only information we've ever gotten out of them, was a small slip of paper saying that they had recieved out application on the 19th of July. We managed to change out address, with suprisingly was a very quick process. Not that they notified us or anything, but around then I think I checked the e-client about once a day, and noticed that our address was now the new and correct one. Now I check about once a week if I remember, having read somewhere that they only update their e-client the night between sunday and monday. Anyway, it wasn't the e-client that had a new status or anything. We got a letter! With great exitement Katrin opened the letter (with me on the phone), but it didn't include an update! :( It was just a letter saying that they hadn't been able to process our application in the timeframe they had told us on the small slip of paper we got (wich was 18 months) Well no suprise there! They did say, that they expected to have processed out case by March 2006 (I'm guessing they'll start the processing then) and that they are now processing applications from April 2004. With their calculations, the people who submitted their applications in April 2004 ought to get answers around now. Lucky people :) All is not lost though, because this letter has a great significance even though it didn't ask us for more details or told us that we are on to the next face. But it did tell us that this mystic "Canadian High Commission in London" (whom we paid quite a few money too) actually exists! and not only that, but our case is active, laying on someone's desk and hasn't been dropped behind a bookcase or something! :) This is great news, and I hope they keep that up, and don't go spoil the whole thing by refusing us immigration ;)