Policy Peeve

Not a pet peeve. Pet peeve's are small annoying things. Now peeves that affect a whole nation's populace cause of some policy maker in Ottawa...

So the documentation tells you to submit your spouse's passport along with a host of other papers. You are called to an interview, during which time, one person will evaluate whether you're lying through your teeth. Then all your pictures and personal documents that they don't need, along with your passport, are returned per policy.

Then several months later they ask for your passport to be stamped. Thus delaying everything by several weeks - per policy. Now if they would have kept the passport until processing was complete...

Oh. Right. 800,000 (I am not making that up) applications in the queue. Red tape is a must.

Hacks.