$545??? Don't you love bureaucracy? I apply for my permanent residency to be renewed (i like to call it my p.residency), print off the form, write out the cheque for the fee (plus biometric services) of $270, and send it off. Ah, but in the space between printing the form and mailing the form, the fees have gone up. There was nothing I recall telling me the fees would go up when i printed the form from the website, but up they went. Not just a little bit. Not just by thirty dollars or so. No, the fee has gone from $270 to a whopping $545!!! No useful explanation, other than some gibberish about 'improving service'. Are they going to take me out for a champagne lunch? Send a Roll's Royce to take me to the interview? Give me an ID card made of platinum (one that I can at least use as ID to buy beer in safeway would be enough, mate) ? Not that I want to criticize them, of course. I do after all want to stay..!

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Roshan (19.9.07 11:52) Well, presumably the administrative effort associated with the processing of your form has now doubled? Sounds like utter bull-merde to me (if you'll pardon my French)!

petescully / Website (19.9.07 16:27) it's only doubled because they had to send it back, make me send it again, and then open it again. i should charge them for my admin costs!

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