Hello All,
............just a brief message about some breaking news. We had a
great day. Got the court decree, the new birth certificates, the
kids' new tax id numbers. Thanks to Darlene Quarterman who took great care of the kids while we waited for several hours at each of these offices.
But then we all went to the passport office. Apparently, all over
Ukraine, there are no more blank passport forms/folders. This means
that once the passport information is processed and approved, there
will be no way to display it and take it with you. So in effect, one
cannot get a passport. The passport office took all the information
and took the kids' pictures, etc. but could not begin processing the
data. They asked that we call back tomorrow once they have more
information. So please pray that this will not be as difficult a fix
as one might imagine. There were three other American families at the
Passport Office, so we all are in the same boat. I suppose there are
many more.
The kids are Ukrainian citizens and require Ukrainian passports. Since they are Ukrainian citizens with Ukraine passports they also require a visa from the US to enter the USA. We cannot apply for the visas until we have passports.
The US Embassy in Kiev might be receiving a bunch of phone calls
tomorrow.
Just wanted to let you know how to pray,
Dan
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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Don't know if this is possible but when we got the kids passports 2 weeks ago they were issued the old style passports, not the new digital ones. The US Embassy didn't seem to care whether they had the new passports or the old ones, plus the old style ones only took a day to make instead of 3 days for the new one. You may ask if they can just do the old style one?
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