Bonjour mon cher blog. I can now finally blog on all our Canadian (and New Brunswickers) cards, giggling here.
Firstly, we finally received today our permanent resident cards after our landing last 3 May 2016. I can cry right now. I am just so happy seeing and holding our diplomas. The fruit of our labor. Our PR cards. These cards will always remind me to never be afraid to dream big, to chase your dream and most especially, never give up on your dream.
Honestly, until now, I am still in awe and trying to absorb as much as I can that we are really here in the maple leaf country. Last year, I was only googling the places here but now we are framed in the picturesque sceneries and natural beauty of New Brunswick. And very soon, the other provinces of Canada. Hey, we have our PR cards now which only means we can now travel, LOL. Here is a selfie of our PR cards.
Secondly, our medicare cards. We applied our medicare cards before Service New Brunswick (SNB) on our second day here in Fredericton. We only presented our passports and COPRs (today, however, they now require other provincial nominees for a contract of lease for 1 year) and the SNB staff told us that we will receive our medicare cards after 4 weeks. On the 2nd week, SNB wrote us a letter informing us to update our permanent address and date of landing. We have the option to fax it to SNB but we chose to go directly to their office and gave them the required documents. On the 3rd week, SNB wrote us a letter again informing us of our medicare card's number and that the cards are coming very soon. Thus, on or before 4 June 2016 (4th week), our medicare cards were couriered to us.
Thirdly, our government issued IDs in lieu of a driver's license. I read somewhere in Canada visa forum that we can apply for a government ID if we do not have a driver's license. Both me and my husband has no talent in driving, LOL. We have yet to take a written tests and driving lessons. So, what we did, we went to SNB to inquire on the government ID and they told us that we can get one on the same day. The ID, however, will not entitle us to drive. We paid for more or less CAD56.00 each. They took a picture of us as our photo ID, signed and printed our government ID in more or less 5 minutes and viola, instant identification card with our address on it.
Lastly, our library cards. Almost every government facilities here in New Brunswick are free and, yes, including the public library. You can go there to access the internet (I think we can print here too but haven't really tried), borrow books and borrow DVDs too, LOL. I am actually waiting for Game of Thrones Season 6, hahaha. All you need is to get a library card so you can take home with you books or DVDs. The card is free.
There goes the Canadian cards. I am putting together in one frame our medicare, government ID and library cards as shown below:
I just can't believe we are holding them all now. I never thought our infertility situation will bring us this far. We only desire for our own child but we never had imagined that this longingness will take us to a place we never imagined in our entire life. In our so many ups and downs, the only thing that has keep us going is our faith to our Father God because, more than ever, we believe that little R will come in His most precious perfect time.
