What's All The Commotion Been About?

Well, hopefully, just these little documents that are being held by a joyful Jenny. Each one is just half the size of an 8.5x11 sheet of paper. But for now they are our one chance of getting out of Poland and back home to Ukraine! Thanks to our special people back in Kiev who have made these documents a reality!

These are stamps of approval from the immigrations services office in Kiev, Ukraine. We will be taking them to the Ukrainian consulate here in Krakow, Poland tomorrow morning. For those of you in the US, this will happen during the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday. For those of you receiving this as an automated e-mail from Google/Blogger, the event has probably already happened.

So I am going to send a copy out right now to every e-mail address that I have connected with my mission in Ukraine. Here's the prayer request:

We have the documents we need to apply for visas but we still need the consulate to approve our visas. Our previous visas were religious. Because the government has made it temporarily impossible to get the supporting documents for new religious visas, we have had to find a loophole. We are applying now for 90 day private visas, and the documents we just received are government-approved letters of invitation from Jenny's fiance.

The problem: even these documents do not mean the consulate official has to approve our visas. It is his decision. If he doesn't like the fact that we were previously in on religious visas and now are applying for private visas, we will have an issue. In speaking to him last week, we realized that he is rather suspicious of our inability to provide documents for a religious visa. What he didn't know and doesn't particularly care about is the fact that the government has made this task literally impossible for the time being. So please, PLEASE pray that he either understands the situation tomorrow or doesn't care about the change of visa type.

Thank you!