So although dragon boat is slowing winding down (our last regatta is this weekend!) my week has been really busy. I finally got my visa letter from U of Edinburgh in the mail last Friday and have been working really hard on my visa application. There are so many forms that basically ask the same questions, and I have no idea whether or not I have to fill all of them out. There's an online application that I have to do, plus an Appendix and Personal details form from the UK Border Agency website. The online application cost $261.00!!!!! My god, I really hope I did it right. I had to take new passport-sized photos for the application and when I go meet with the visa application people, I have to get biometrics completed which are fingerprints and another picture. I'm already cutting it really close and I hope that the queue for getting a student visa to the UK is very VERY short. It's supposed to take 6-8 weeks and I'm meeting with the application office this Thursday and leaving for Edinburgh August 1st. And I'm really glad McMaster didn't screw me over either. Luckily, I was going to Hamilton anyways this Wednesday in the afternoon for dragon boat practice at Bayfront Park (we get a free hour from Lively Dragons for registering for one of their regattas) and now I can just go earlier to pick up my transcript! And I'm lucky because I applied to pick up my transcript after convocation waaaay in advance (like back in May) so I was on the top of the pile. *Sigh* It's pretty stressful right now with the forms and hopefully I have everything filled out. It even said on the UK Border Agency website that the main reason people are turned away from getting a visa is due to insufficient documents so I have the originals and copies of EVERYTHING. I should probably dress nicer too so at least I look like a student about to study medicine and not a student bum.
Hopefully the meeting goes well!! Wish me luck :).
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good luck!
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