AKA: "An Aliyah Guide for the Perplexed"

Plan for the worst, and pray for the best
Rabbi Yisroel Cohen

Keep laughing, your sanity is at risk
DovBer Eliyahu Finkel

Are we having fun yet?
Ron Aaron

Introduction

Preparation, Persperation and Panic

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...

14 JUN 2006 - Sent in completed forms and check to the Sochnut
10 JUL 2006 - Shelichah from the Sochnut speaks to me (phone interview). She informs me that since I have Israeli citizenship, my daughters are Israeli citizens - so I need to contact the consulate and get identity numbers for my daughters, before the "tik" can continue processing.
10 JUL 2006 - Contact the consulate via email, they let me know what forms to fill out. I fill them out and start the process...
05 SEP 2006 - Attempt to contact consulate and find out why I don't yet have any documents from them.
09 NOV 2006 - Shelichah informs me she will open my "tik" even though I haven't yet got the numbers she needs; she asks for several documents, which I send her via email.
13 DEC 2006 - Finally receive the documents from the consulate. Note that it took five months!
14 DEC 2006 - Inform Shelichah about the numbers, and she tells me she will start processing our "tik"
18 DEC 2006 - Ask Shelichah what our status is (no answer).
08 JAN 2007 - Shelichah asks what we were able to settle with the consulate (note I already informed her three weeks ago).