More good news...

Little baby steps... slowly, but surely things are moving forward. Which is SO much better than those eight months when nothing happened.

I just got off the phone with Al at Sukh Dhaliwal's office again. What a blessing to have found someone who genuinely cares about our file and is willing to go through so much trouble to get information for us! It keeps me believing that there are some people involved in politics who still have a heart.

The documents David dropped off at the visa office on December 21 have been received and a positive decision was made on December 31 in regard to those. Now, Accra is just waiting on the medical results in order to make a final decision. David has already been told, unofficially, by the staff who did his and the kids' medicals that everything looks good, so we're really not expecting any issues on that point. It looks like it's just a matter of the visa office receiving the results and officially processing whatever needs to processed so they can send out a letter with the decision. We're holding our breath that the medicals will be received within the next week - that seems to be a realistic expectation. Hopefully my next post, within a couple weeks, will be that David has finally been invited to come get his visa and traveling documents!

A funny: when David was at the High Commission to drop off his documents in December, it also happened to be a day they were handing out visas. David talked to a guy who had just received his. He looked at the simple little stamp in his passport and said, "This is it?!" Yes, all the expense, waiting, anxiety, rushing to get documents in order, and more painful waiting is all for a stamp. I'm thinking we might have to get David's laminated and framed....