What kind of day has it been…

(Apologies to Aaron Sorkin.)

So the Main Distractor’s work permit application stuff has been progressing, glacially. Yesterday morning I got up and counted some days on my Hello Kitty! calendar and thought, hmmm. And I said to the MD, I thought there might be good lawyer news today.

Late morning (my time), he said SPOOOOKY, and there was good news! email from the lawyer saying here’s your thingie, follow the instructions on the attached carefully, and yada yada yada! Wheeeeeeeee! countless exclamation points flowed from my fingers! it’s actually still early enough that he could probably get everything squared away and move here by the end of the year!

And then?

And then.

He got to the last page of the document, and discovered that the application had been made using the wrong job classification number. Presumably the steps leading thereto had also been using the wrong job title. For whatever reason, the documentation pertaining to all this leadup had never been copied to him (which never made any sense to me at all; standard practice is to copy people mentioned in business correspondence; you’d think a copy of relevant forms and such would have been sent to the subject of same?). So he had no opportunity until all the time and application fees and lawyers’ fees etc. were all spent to say “Oh, that’s not correct.”

So. Back to square one.

The absolutely least time I can see this taking is three months, if everyone hustles. Given that it’s taken seven and a half months to get this far, any hustling on anyone’s part seems…unlikely.

And a Happy Friday to you.