I had expected my dossier to be in Ethiopia by now. It is not. But there is a good reason why it is not, and I am thankful that things weren't worse.
A couple of weeks ago, there was a fire in downtown Medicine Hat (the location of one of CAFAC's offices - and the location of my dossier). The fire occurred close enough to the office to cause minor smoke damage but, fortunately, no fire damage.
However, the office has had to move temporarily while the building is cleaned and repainted. This has put the usually efficient CAFAC team behind in their paperwork. Thus the reason for the delay with my file.
As I said, I'm thankful the damage wasn't worse. I don't know how I would have handled it if my file had been destroyed and I would have had to redo my dossier from scratch! Sadly, there were 5 businesses that did lose everything so my heart goes out to them while I thank my lucky stars for small favors.
I called CAFAC yesterday and the director replied that my dossier coordinator is away this week and so they are running very slowly right now. But my file will be sent off at some point. I'm just not sure when yet. sigh.
