When we were in Bible College our Pastor often had to make difficult announcements, sometimes he was able to share a blessing at the same time. He would say we have an opportunity to weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice. We have one of those times.
It seems odd to share this news with you know, but we know God's timiing is best and we want to give Him the glory for answered prayers. On Friday before we left for the ladies retreat Scott got a notice in the mail that he needed to get the certificates granting the kids legal residency in Uruguay. Yesterday before spending the afternoon and evening at the hospital awaiting Belen's surgery he took the morning to go to immigration. This morning he showed me the 7 certificates for each of our USA born children. PRAISE THE LORD!!!!
10 months ago when Silas was born there was no law on the books which would help us to gain residency. We simply (ha, was there anything simple about it?) had to go through the process, and continue going through it. But God knew that in February of this year a law would be passed granitng residency to parents of Uruguayan born children. All our other children fell into this same benefit. We can't tell you how glad we are to have that finally finished. Our support level ought to go up now that we don't ahve to keep making trips into the capital for red tape. Thanks for praying.
Showing posts with label legal residency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal residency. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
17 months and finally done.
I can hardly believe it, after all these months of being told our residency would be finished next month we actually, really, truly have in our hands the Residencia Legales for Scott and I. Praise the Lord! We were told this morning that the kids file was now in the approval office and should be done in a month...or two. You'll know when we know. And that will be when we have it in our hands. Thanks for praying!
Please be praying as we prepare to sell, or turn in, whatever the process may be, our bonds that were the guarentee for the container. The paper we needed, or think we need (long story) is ready to be turned in to Eduana. Scott will need to call upon our contact that helped him buy them in the first place. Since the bonds are in US dollars, we're hoping that the dollar will jump significantly before we sell/turn them in and we'll actually make a little profit instead of a loss.
For the past 3 days each time we turned the engine over in the van we heard a significant crunching sound. Scott was trouble shooting it in his mind and hoped we wouldn't have trouble on today's trip to MV, especially since he spent yesterday afternoon replacing the radiator. When we pulled into the parking garage at Immigration the van would not turn back on. So when we left we had to be pushed out of the garage and down the hill to pop the clutch. Thankfully another missionary family, the Parnells, in Montevideo allowed us to use their driveway and also played taxi so Scott could repair the starter. Which just turned out to be a missing bolt. We are thankful this happened in the capitol as it provided us with the ease of finding the right parts with little wait.
Please be praying as we prepare to sell, or turn in, whatever the process may be, our bonds that were the guarentee for the container. The paper we needed, or think we need (long story) is ready to be turned in to Eduana. Scott will need to call upon our contact that helped him buy them in the first place. Since the bonds are in US dollars, we're hoping that the dollar will jump significantly before we sell/turn them in and we'll actually make a little profit instead of a loss.
For the past 3 days each time we turned the engine over in the van we heard a significant crunching sound. Scott was trouble shooting it in his mind and hoped we wouldn't have trouble on today's trip to MV, especially since he spent yesterday afternoon replacing the radiator. When we pulled into the parking garage at Immigration the van would not turn back on. So when we left we had to be pushed out of the garage and down the hill to pop the clutch. Thankfully another missionary family, the Parnells, in Montevideo allowed us to use their driveway and also played taxi so Scott could repair the starter. Which just turned out to be a missing bolt. We are thankful this happened in the capitol as it provided us with the ease of finding the right parts with little wait.
Friday, April 04, 2008
In 20 days, no questions asked.
No that's not an ad for a store. That is part of the new legal residency law for parents who have had a child in country. We are supposed to qualify for this new program because of Silas. Scott had our file split off from the kids at the beginning of March. He went back yesterday to file a paper that had expired and expected to get our paper declaring our legal residency.
Evidently the 20 days begins when they actually split the file up and start the process. SIGH. He was told that was not done yet. Supposedly they have now split the file and sent ours up to Juridica for the approval process. Once we are granted legal residency we will have our bond released. Also our kids legal residency should be a faster process once we have been granted residency. We would appreciate your prayers for this.
Evidently the 20 days begins when they actually split the file up and start the process. SIGH. He was told that was not done yet. Supposedly they have now split the file and sent ours up to Juridica for the approval process. Once we are granted legal residency we will have our bond released. Also our kids legal residency should be a faster process once we have been granted residency. We would appreciate your prayers for this.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Temporary Cedulas, Passports, and Consular Birth Certificates
One of the benefits of legal residency in Uruguay is the ID card called a Cedula. After spending several hours over 3 different days, and waiting for just over a week, we now have in hand our temporary Cedulas. First, Scott took me, Brandon, Kaitlin and Silas then he took Bethany and finally he took Nehemiah, Isabel, and Simeon in. This was all stretched out over 3 days. Thankfully we have a cedula office here in the city we live in, as I could not imagine making three trips into the capitol for these.
Hopefully, we will have our legal residency cedulas not too long into the New Year. Knowing it would take a lot of time and effort, and knowing we would have to do this again once our residency came in we waited (hoping our legal residency would be here by now) to get these temporary cedulas. Since our international drivers licenses are due to expire we needed our Cedulas to get our Uruguayan drivers license. Of course, because Silas is a dual citizen (Uruguayan/American) his cedula is permanent and won't need to be renewed for 5 years.
When Silas was 10 days old we headed to the US Embassy with him to gain his born abroad US citizenship. In order to get Silas' birth certificate and passport we had to prove I was pregnant with him, show his Uruguayan birth certificate and also prove that we are US citizens. They asked that we bring photos while I was pregnant and in the hospital, documents to prove we had lived in the US for at least 5 years after we turned 14, our passports, etc. Their suggestion for documents was old pay stubs, high school/college transcripts, bills, and the like. Since we left most of that in the States we showed up with what we did have - 7 birth certificates, one for each of our children born in the USA. I guess that satisfied their requests and proved our citizenship and Silas'. In two weeks time we had his new American passport and his consular birth certificate. It's amazing how quickly a passport makes it through the system when it's applied for abroad.
Hopefully, we will have our legal residency cedulas not too long into the New Year. Knowing it would take a lot of time and effort, and knowing we would have to do this again once our residency came in we waited (hoping our legal residency would be here by now) to get these temporary cedulas. Since our international drivers licenses are due to expire we needed our Cedulas to get our Uruguayan drivers license. Of course, because Silas is a dual citizen (Uruguayan/American) his cedula is permanent and won't need to be renewed for 5 years.
When Silas was 10 days old we headed to the US Embassy with him to gain his born abroad US citizenship. In order to get Silas' birth certificate and passport we had to prove I was pregnant with him, show his Uruguayan birth certificate and also prove that we are US citizens. They asked that we bring photos while I was pregnant and in the hospital, documents to prove we had lived in the US for at least 5 years after we turned 14, our passports, etc. Their suggestion for documents was old pay stubs, high school/college transcripts, bills, and the like. Since we left most of that in the States we showed up with what we did have - 7 birth certificates, one for each of our children born in the USA. I guess that satisfied their requests and proved our citizenship and Silas'. In two weeks time we had his new American passport and his consular birth certificate. It's amazing how quickly a passport makes it through the system when it's applied for abroad.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Got Gas???
A missionary friend of ours in Bolivia recently sent us an e-mail with that title. And, no, the subject matter within the email was not about fuel for cars. Rather it was about propane gas, you see we are having a bit of a shortage here in South America. Scott has had to drive all over town looking for garafas - filled propane gas bottles. Right now we have no estufa since we're all out of gas, BRRRRR! What makes it especially bad is that even when we find propane the bottles aren't filled all the way.
Thankfully we're not like our friends who are in a pioneer missions life where their garrafas run all their appliances, fridge included. The only appliances that we need propane for are our estufa, stove and clothes dryer. The latter is run by two very large tanks, about 5 feet high, and I'm wishing our other appliances were as well. I'll admit that it's a little annoying to be in the middle of cooking a meal only to have the gas run out. Though I can cook eggs in the microwave, for some reason it doesn't do such a nice job on pancakes.
Later today we're headed over to the immigration office with all the kids to get our temporary ID's. That should be an adventure all in itself. Though hopefully nothing like our Ministry of Health visit when we first arrived. Mr. and Mrs. B, I'm sure I don't have to remind of that adventure.
Scott is hoping to find a van to purchase this week as well. Keep praying we sure would like a larger vehicle especially since I'm taking up a lot more real estate these days.
Thankfully we're not like our friends who are in a pioneer missions life where their garrafas run all their appliances, fridge included. The only appliances that we need propane for are our estufa, stove and clothes dryer. The latter is run by two very large tanks, about 5 feet high, and I'm wishing our other appliances were as well. I'll admit that it's a little annoying to be in the middle of cooking a meal only to have the gas run out. Though I can cook eggs in the microwave, for some reason it doesn't do such a nice job on pancakes.
Later today we're headed over to the immigration office with all the kids to get our temporary ID's. That should be an adventure all in itself. Though hopefully nothing like our Ministry of Health visit when we first arrived. Mr. and Mrs. B, I'm sure I don't have to remind of that adventure.
Scott is hoping to find a van to purchase this week as well. Keep praying we sure would like a larger vehicle especially since I'm taking up a lot more real estate these days.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Maybe today...
...we will get our container. At least we are one step closer than yesterday! Today Scott headed into the capitol to post our bond for the release of the container. The way we understand it, once the bond is posted it takes about 4-5 days for approval and release of the container. The bond is a guarentee that we are seeking legal residency and will not sell our goods once they are released. Once the government gives us legal residency we have been told we will get our bond back.
Scott had to open an account here in order to post the bond, which actually was less an ordeal than expected. Apparantly it's next to impossible for a foreigner to get a bank account here. Just one more proof that we are exactly where God wants us.
Last Sunday, Dr. Cummins asked the people here to pray before every meal that God would work a miracle and allow for our container to be released before the end of the week, so he could preach in the Big Tent. It's still possible, if they will release our container today or tomorrow we could have the tent for Sunday services. Keep praying!
Scott had to open an account here in order to post the bond, which actually was less an ordeal than expected. Apparantly it's next to impossible for a foreigner to get a bank account here. Just one more proof that we are exactly where God wants us.
Last Sunday, Dr. Cummins asked the people here to pray before every meal that God would work a miracle and allow for our container to be released before the end of the week, so he could preach in the Big Tent. It's still possible, if they will release our container today or tomorrow we could have the tent for Sunday services. Keep praying!
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