Passport Application Continued

Last Thursday I was able to take Ella’s passport application in and leave it at the lawyers. Yes. We are still working on that darned passport! I had an unfortunate encounter with a certain government official whom I needed to get a letter from in order to turn in my applications, last November. The man is an asshole, pure and simple. I left his office raving mad and burst into tears in the parking lot. I cry when I’m really, really furious and by golly was I ever! I called our lawyer and she said just to bring in all the paperwork and they’d get the letter, so that is what we’ve done. I’m also hoping that they just run it through immigration for us too. I do not mind the extra fee that’s for sure, if they can get it done in a timely manner and save me the time and extreme frustration. It’s no wonder there is so much corruption in this country. It seems that at times they want to force you into it! The man was requiring something that I can NOT GET because I live here in Uganda, yet the law says that you MUST live here. Yah, go figure. This dude is just full of it though and enjoys hassling people like me. Seems he has different requirements for different people every day.

So hopefully the passport will be done this month, then I get a tourist visa for Ella to enter the U.S, then I buy our tickets!! Through a serious of circumstances we will be coming home in MAY instead of August!! Only 4 months away!!! We will now be staying May – August (hopefully). Word is out that the U.S is issuing a year long tourist visa to kids like L, instead of the previous three month one. So we are praying for a year long one so that we can stay for four months. After four years I can not wait to go back home!! And to take my daughter with me is a blessing I never would have dreamed of when I set out four years ago:)