I just had to do this. To vent, I mean. There are certain limits to how much one can cope with in silence before the dams are overflown. I was just about managing with my own personal challenges, but when they expanded to involve someone else, I have had it. After more then a year of fighting system to get my parents over here, 12 weeks of waiting time didn’t seem much, after all, the positive decision has been made and all it needed was to be processed through yet another bureaucratic system wheels. So we waited diligently for few months and when we finally asked about the progress, we were told they never received the copy of determination…it would’ve been almost hilarious if not involve the ruined hopes for two old people, we so wished to get good news for the New Year’s. Well, thank you, unkind people of home office, for making it so difficult, this time, for no apparent reason. One more unresolved issue to take care of. I really could do without it right now. At this particular uneasy time of year so many times already I feel like giving up on everything and say that''s it, you won, I am incapable to raise above it and so many time I've been thinking that returning back to Russia would’ve sort out all the problems for everyone. Except from me, of course, but at this point I don’t feel like I care any more…*sighs*