Today is the 11th of January, which means that we have to go to the airport to check if there are any news regarding our case. I had insomnia and couldn’t eat in the morning, but we finally went to the airport so we’d be there by 2:30 pm. The CBSA office looks like a police station (I’ve never been to one, but that’s how I imagine it). The officer on duty took our documents and checked that we were who we said we were....

While I have some free time, I want to tell you about quarantine in Canada, specifically in Toronto. Before we went to Canada, we read this article about the 14-day mandatory quarantine for everyone entering Canada. As requested, we prepared a quarantine plan to share with the officer, but we didn’t actually talk much about the quarantine itself because of our unusual case. The officer just told us to go to our temporary place and be back at the airport when the quarantine was over....

Hello, my name is Natasha, and I’m a person who plans everything, but nothing ever goes according to plan, for all kinds of reasons (and then I suffer and get depressed). I’d always wanted to move away from Russia. I had plenty of ideas, thoughts, and sometimes opportunities to do it, but it never really happened until this time. Immigration and relocation aren’t easy, especially during a pandemic. I’m sure anyone who has relocated has 1,001 stories about how they moved, but ours is just plain weird and unusual....