Migración

"The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; he directs it like a watercouse wherever he pleases."

This past week we made our second trip to Migración to submit our papers for a resident visa. On our first trip we had been told that we needed one more paper that would need to come from the national church here, FIEL. While we waited for FIEL to obtain their papers, our expiration date passed, so we had to pay a fine for going past the required 30 days for obtaining a visa.

The paper that the FIEL needed to supply also came about in an extraordinary way. They had to acquire a signature from someone at the state department but that office is known for it's lengthy delays. When the FIEL representative took their paper in on Thursday hoping to get the signature he was told it would probably be 2 - 3 months before we received said document. Everyone began to wonder what to do. Could we overstay our entrance visa that long? What should we do?

It happened, that over the weekend the man who worked in that office was changed and a new representative was installed. Being new at his post, the representative quickly signed all the papers that the former agent had left on his desk. We had our paper by Monday and submitted them on Tuesday morning. Our submitted papers were approved and we need to go in later this week to see if the visa is ready!

"As soon as you began to pray, an answer was given" Dan. 9:23


Protest Update
The protests mentioned in the previous blog have ended. A compromise was reached to give the workers a 12% raise. The government has also agreed not to confiscate the worker's health savings fund to start a universal health program - for now.