March 21, 2008
Disclaimer: For the duration of this trip, I will post two versions of our updates…scroll down for the short version…
The flight over was uneventful…Adam shared and Ambien with me and I slept like a champ. We landed in Moscow and our driver was right where he was supposed to be. We got checked in to the Marriot and settled into our room and we found out that there is a family with another agency that will be traveling with us and is with our same facilitator…Deb, they are with your agency! There are Americans everywhere. There are 3 going over to Kras on the same flight with us and a few families on their way back. We met up with the Swingles and met half of the Dini family.
So far, we have done nothing. We are not too sure why we left on Thursday since we had a full free day and have our medicals later today. Not too nervous about it as everyone here assures us it is really no big deal. I will update with details on that later.
Our most significant news is that we have incorrect dates on our visas so we will definitely be coming home at least one day early, maybe more. If they cannot figure out how to get our consulate appointment crammed in before the 15th, we will come home as soon as we finish with the Embassy and do the consulate at home. This could be up to 3 days early. Either way, we are fine but it would be nice to come home a few days earlier.
Also, we had a phone call almost as soon as we settled in to the room that there was an issue with my employment letter. I spent the first night dealing with that from here …on the phone with my mom and our agency back home trying to get it all taken care of. It seems that they the judge does not like that the copy she has was signed by the secretary of the corporation (not a secretary in terms of letter typing etc but the sec. on the corp docs) so they wanted one signed by the president…which there is a copy of at the MOE…so, the facilitator is trying to get that one for court and in the meantime, we have completed an additional one and sent an electronic copy of it over and mailed the original in hopes it will get there in time or the next day and that the judge will allow us to have our court date with the copy, knowing it will be there shortly…please pray for this. Our agency does not seem overly concerned but obviously it is additional stress at this time.
So after spending the first night up dealing with that we spent the next day almost entirely in bed and then couldn’t sleep that night…so here we are…about to leave for the medicals, we have our days and nights confused, and we have paperwork issues…good times…
Short Version: Lots of Americans, met the Swingles and Dinis, days and nights mixed up, visa dates are wrong coming home 1-3 day early and we have minor paperwork issues.
Disclaimer: For the duration of this trip, I will post two versions of our updates…scroll down for the short version…
The flight over was uneventful…Adam shared and Ambien with me and I slept like a champ. We landed in Moscow and our driver was right where he was supposed to be. We got checked in to the Marriot and settled into our room and we found out that there is a family with another agency that will be traveling with us and is with our same facilitator…Deb, they are with your agency! There are Americans everywhere. There are 3 going over to Kras on the same flight with us and a few families on their way back. We met up with the Swingles and met half of the Dini family.
So far, we have done nothing. We are not too sure why we left on Thursday since we had a full free day and have our medicals later today. Not too nervous about it as everyone here assures us it is really no big deal. I will update with details on that later.
Our most significant news is that we have incorrect dates on our visas so we will definitely be coming home at least one day early, maybe more. If they cannot figure out how to get our consulate appointment crammed in before the 15th, we will come home as soon as we finish with the Embassy and do the consulate at home. This could be up to 3 days early. Either way, we are fine but it would be nice to come home a few days earlier.
Also, we had a phone call almost as soon as we settled in to the room that there was an issue with my employment letter. I spent the first night dealing with that from here …on the phone with my mom and our agency back home trying to get it all taken care of. It seems that they the judge does not like that the copy she has was signed by the secretary of the corporation (not a secretary in terms of letter typing etc but the sec. on the corp docs) so they wanted one signed by the president…which there is a copy of at the MOE…so, the facilitator is trying to get that one for court and in the meantime, we have completed an additional one and sent an electronic copy of it over and mailed the original in hopes it will get there in time or the next day and that the judge will allow us to have our court date with the copy, knowing it will be there shortly…please pray for this. Our agency does not seem overly concerned but obviously it is additional stress at this time.
So after spending the first night up dealing with that we spent the next day almost entirely in bed and then couldn’t sleep that night…so here we are…about to leave for the medicals, we have our days and nights confused, and we have paperwork issues…good times…
Short Version: Lots of Americans, met the Swingles and Dinis, days and nights mixed up, visa dates are wrong coming home 1-3 day early and we have minor paperwork issues.
2 comments:
Ack! -- I hate all the paperwork stress. I hope it all gets ironed out very soon for you. You don't need all those worries. Can't wait to hear about your reunion.
Why does that paperwork always seem to be the glitch. Blessings to you both for enduring through it all.
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