The end…or actually the beginning!

The test/interview at the Embassy went well (despite my heart sitting in my throat the entire time!), and yesterday we received an email to say that my Visa has been approved. We’ve book flights! It actually feels so unreal that after two years of intense paperwork hunting, we’re actually really really on our way! And…

Hold on to your hat!

So…after roughly two years of hunting paperwork, we have at long last received Noodle’s German Passport! 🎉🎉🎉 Now what? You guessed it… more paperwork! Haha. Next up on our to do list is win the Lotto, get medical insurance, have our hard found documents apostled at DIRCO, and apply for my Visa (which could take…

Progress…dead slow, but not dead

Andy was finally able to pick up his German passport today. Sheesh, four weeks overdue which is practically an eternity in German terms! Due to Corona crazies the embassy was unable to offer its usual range of services, and so we waited… Great. No seriously, we are extremely excited about this. Now that we have…

Ducks Lining Up

Happy days! We finally have the last of our Home Affairs documents, and yesterday we went to the German Embassy to apply for Andy’s passport renewal. In 8 weeks we can apply for our EEA family permits once we have that, and then we’re good to go. Hop on a plane and start a new…

Blink,and you’ll miss it

So…part of our “master plan” for this adventure was that a few months before we flew the coop we’d move in with my folks and sell off our furniture. The initial timeline put that at about June, since we wanted to leave by September. We were still kind of contemplating how we would break the…