Both Della and I couldn’t really sleep last night because of
our frustration and despair. I got out of bed at 4:00 and retyped the two
documents from the translator. I also noticed that the translator had written
Della’s name as Mae Dobbins. We left at 7:00 to get Samuel. We had to take the
scenic route to avoid traffic but we arrived at the mall at 10:15. Della stayed
at the mall and Samuel and I walked across the street to the lawyer for the translator.
The lawyer was not in today but his secretary was in. She said that they are
always having to fix this translator’s errors. Thankfully I had emailed myself
the papers because the secretary needed to print it on the pre-signed paper.
The secretary said she needed to witness Della signing hers so we walked back
to the mall to get Della. One of us has to stay at the mall because we parked
our van there. Della and Samuel came back shortly with all papers completed. We
ate brunch at Taco Bell and Samuel said it was his first time ever. It tasted
like we were back in the states. We then left for Santa Ana at 11:20. We met
Daniel (Samuel’s brother) and followed him to the immigration office. The
officer reviewed the corrections and said they were good! They skimmed through
all the other papers and said they would accept them!!! We paid the cashier and
then they tried to take my fingerprints and picture. They tried three times to
enter my info and each time they hit the save button the computer would pop up
a dialog that said something about a MySQL syntax error. By this point it was 1:30
so he told us to go eat lunch and come back in 30 minutes for the tech guy to
have time to look at it. We came back at 2:30 and thankfully they had it all
fixed. They completed taking my and Della’s info and said our cards would be
ready for us to get in 5 days!
Now that the papers are accepted, we have been assured that
the expiration date is no longer an issue. If a problem is found with the
papers we will be given a new deadline to fix the problem or start over again. The
immigration officer told us to expect them to be rejected due to the translator
not translating the seals. But there is a chance that they will pass the
review. Either way, Glory to God, we will not have to come back to the states
to redo our papers anytime soon. Also, we expect that will now have a chance to
recover from this process before having to travel to San Salvador again.
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| Some cool graffiti on the way to San Salvador |
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| Some more cool graffiti on the way to San Salvador |
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| Walmart in San Salvador! |
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| 100 year old piles of rocks from cold lava |
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| Our baby is the size of a mango now! |
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| Side view of our baby! |
Yea!! So glad to hear your paperwork was accepted. Della is looking great, your mango is precious. We are missing you muchísimo
ReplyDeletePraise God for your acceptance. We have been praying and soliciting prayers. Baby is growing:) Hope the three of you can get some rest. We love you! Mom and Dad
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