Friday, January 23, 2009

This is new...

It is time for me to renew my Visa. I was told last year to request a 5 year Visa so this time I did. Nope - sorry the police won't go for it (so why did this same guy tell me to do it????). No biggie - onward. I got all the documents together, including the recommendation from City Hall to give me my visa. I dutifully faxed them to Bucharest on January 14 to the Ministry of Health. Last year I received the approval back in less than 48 hrs! There are also 6 others requesting their visas and we are all using my fax number. Cassandra was in Bucharest on Wednesday and she took a copy of all of our documents, all seven of us, to the Ministry of Health. The same secretary is there, she is the one who actually does the work and prepares the approval and then hands it to the Minister of Health to sign. Yes, she has 10 folders on her desk, seven of them are ours...HOWEVER there is no Minister of Health so NOBODY can sign for us to get a Visa. The secretary also doesn't know when one might be appointed. Paula Dunn went to the police to ask what possibly could be done - nothing. One guy's is already expired, the Dunn family expire January 31 and I have until February 14. We were all instructed to get out and back in to Romania before our last day on our Visa and pray the matter gets resolved before another 90 days passes. Well the police didn't say "pray" but that is what we will do for sure!

1 comment:

Erika said...

wow, crazy! We will be praying too.