Today was immigration appointment day for us. Well, for me actually, but we all went. We were nervous going in that I might have to leave the country for a day and then come back. This was because I am within a couple days of the end of the 90 days I am allowed, as a Canadian, to stay in Poland. Things have been complicated with this a little bit now that as of December 21, 2007 Poland joined the border-free Schengen zone of Europe (no border patrols from here to the coast of Portugal). So now rather than simply hopping to Berlin and back, I would have to go to the UK or Lithuania or Russia or some other country not part of the Schengen zone. BUT, that is no longer a concern as my application for residency in the Republic of Poland has been accepted and should, barring some freak occurrence, be approved as EU law stipulates that as a spouse of an EU citizen, I must be granted residency unless I am a threat to national security. As far as I am aware, I am no such threat.
We are very thankful that we had a very nice official at the immigration office and that they accepted the application. We still have to get a couple of more things to them, but they have accepted it nonetheless and I don't have to leave the country.
I'll write more later about what's been going on with us over the last little while, but after today.
