The husband got a text message the other day that our residence permits have finally arrived.
Excellent! His new employer (University of Helsinki now) needed a copy of it - so it was really great timing and took LESS than 4 weeks!
AWESOME!
Today I got a text message from him saying,
"F**king A! Residence permits good till 2016!"
Actually it said "Residence permits home till 2016!" - I'll assume that's a typo.
I was baffled because the officer had told me that it would be good for the year because we still have to wait another round before we can apply for a 3 or 4-year permanent residence status.
I'M NOT COMPLAINING!
Just slightly confused... I mean, wouldn't YOU?
They didn't explain anything to my husband - just confirmed his ID, took away our old residence permit cards to be destroyed and gave him the new ones with a "Have a nice day."
I asked why about four times since he's been home and shown me the cards...and then - to really ice the cake so to speak...he showed me our kids' residence permits.
Theirs is good until 2016 too! (Well, end of 2016...so even longer!)
Now I'm MEGA confused by this point...because in December 2012, I got a call advising me my oldest child was here illegally.
Yep. His residence permit expired a couple months before ours and you can read the rest here.
So in short - I was told by some head-huncho that he won't qualify for a permanent status the same time as us or in average length of time (4 years of A-status) because he was late applying for that year's renewal.
That and our youngest is 2-years old - so he's not even up to 4-years of ANY kind of status in terms of residence permits...
We're just going to assume it's NOT a typo and it has something to do with his work contract...
So why would this make us incredibly happy?!?!
We don't have to stress about putting aside over 500� (assuming fees don't go up by the end of the year) in the month of December this year!!!
Excellent! His new employer (University of Helsinki now) needed a copy of it - so it was really great timing and took LESS than 4 weeks!
AWESOME!
Today I got a text message from him saying,
"F**king A! Residence permits good till 2016!"
Actually it said "Residence permits home till 2016!" - I'll assume that's a typo.
I was baffled because the officer had told me that it would be good for the year because we still have to wait another round before we can apply for a 3 or 4-year permanent residence status.
I'M NOT COMPLAINING!
Just slightly confused... I mean, wouldn't YOU?
They didn't explain anything to my husband - just confirmed his ID, took away our old residence permit cards to be destroyed and gave him the new ones with a "Have a nice day."
I asked why about four times since he's been home and shown me the cards...and then - to really ice the cake so to speak...he showed me our kids' residence permits.
Theirs is good until 2016 too! (Well, end of 2016...so even longer!)
Now I'm MEGA confused by this point...because in December 2012, I got a call advising me my oldest child was here illegally.
Yep. His residence permit expired a couple months before ours and you can read the rest here.
So in short - I was told by some head-huncho that he won't qualify for a permanent status the same time as us or in average length of time (4 years of A-status) because he was late applying for that year's renewal.
That and our youngest is 2-years old - so he's not even up to 4-years of ANY kind of status in terms of residence permits...
We're just going to assume it's NOT a typo and it has something to do with his work contract...
So why would this make us incredibly happy?!?!
We don't have to stress about putting aside over 500� (assuming fees don't go up by the end of the year) in the month of December this year!!!
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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