I have no passport. This makes me nervous.

Actually I do "have" a passport, meaning that there exists a passport issued to me, but I don't have possession of it at the moment. This morning, the two of us sent off our passports to our immigration lawyer who will in turn send to the Canadian consulate in Buffalo. Eventually (and how long "eventually" will be is one of the scary bits) we'll get them back along with visas to re-enter Canada, after which point we will be Landed Immigrants (that's Canadian for "having a green card").

So in the end, this should be a good thing, because it means I'll be a legal permanent resident in the country where I'm actually living at the moment and I won't have to worry about being deported if I lose my job (right now I'm here on a temporary employment visa). In the short run it's scary because I feel like some Mountie will stop me on the street and demand to see my papers and I won't have them and I'll get deported anyway, or at least break down in tears in front of a jeering public audience.

I almost sure this won't happen, but I worry about it all the same (well, occasionally I manage to derail the Mountie-demanding-papers scenario into something a little more titillating and much less worrisome, but I'm almost sure that won't happen either).

Anyway, if you've ever wondered whether you could immigrate to Canada, you too can take the Cosmo quiz that Citizenship and Immigration Canada uses to determine whether or not the Canadians find you desirable. Score at least 75 points and you can bask in the knowledge that Canada wants you!