At 5:00 yesterday evening our last hope of coming home on Saturday vanished. As I said in the last post, there were a lot of dominoes that had to fall exactly right for us to come home when we planned to, and they did not. So, we are no longer coming home this Satruday. We are currently being jerked around by the immigration office that has yet to give us Mary’s passport. Originally they told us we would have her passport last week, but now they say the paperwork has to go through all the "proper channels" and will not tell us what is going on. Without the passport we are unable to get an appointment to obtain Mary’s Visa. It has been a very disappointing and frustrating last few days as we have all grown tired of the emotional roller coaster this process has incurred. Unfortunately, we have been given no time table as to when we can expect to receive the passport leaving us back in Purgatory with no end in sight at this time. We are also stuck, of course, with not knowing what to do with the plane tickets. We do not want to reschedule them without having some sort of idea as to when we will be able to actually go home, but at the same time canceling the tickets completely is much more expensive. As you can imagine the mood around here has shifted dramatically.
Tomorrow both our lawyer and Moses are going to the immigration office to try and work things out, but at this point none of us are clinging to much hope. There is nothing else to report on the progress here as there is not any at the moment. Right now we are all just very disappointed and anxious as to how long we are going to be here with such uncertainty surrounding the passport. I hope that everyone is doing well at home. We will be watching the reports on the elections tonight! I hope everyone had a chance to vote no matter your candidate choice. I will update with news as soon as we have any.
