Good luck with all that, Chief Engineer!
You "hope" to see the certificate before 18 months have passed? I'm sorry to be the one to inform you that if you and your wife don't stay on top of this, you'll be lucky to see it in less that three years!
My husband needed his proof of citizenship shortly after 9/11.
OK, granted, it must have been busy at the time, but still. We paid our $75, and.......3 1/2 years later, his "papers" showed up.
So much for Canadians! hmppphh
;-) It's bureaucracy, and it's everywhere.
less that = less than
My wife is picturing a little old lady hunched over a desk above a coal plant in Sydney, her coke bottle glasses sliding down her nose as she yields her trusty number 2 pencil going over each i and t in each application form. Bureaucrats will be the death of us all!