Visa Issue: Please Pray

Because we were gone for more than six months from Peru, we lost our religious residency. Obtaining it back has historically been easy, taking about a month. Right now there is a new director in charge of issuing residencies who has not been ruling favorably for evangelical missionaries, having even rejected some. Our paperwork is on the director’s desk. Susie’s has been there for almost two months, double the time it usually takes. Our first prayer request is that we are not rejected for religious residency.

We have a complicating issue in that we have a crate that arrived in Peru two weeks ago. We expected Susie to have obtained residency long before the crate arrived. The issue is that customs does not have to release the crate to us without Susie having her residency. What makes matters worse is that customs only has to hold the crate for 30 days before deciding that we never get it! Things can be replaced, but we shipped a ton of pictures from Susie’s youth, including photos of her mother before she passed away. We had a glimmer of hope yesterday. We may have the chance of getting the crate released to us with approved paperwork from immigration stating that we are in process to get our residency. Pray that immigration gives this approval and that customs releases the crate to us before the deadline.

Thanks for your constant support. We count on your prayers!