Residency update

Here's an update on Asya's document process: after the miraculous visa trip, we didn't stop working on what was next. Finally we figured out that we needed to apply for her residency in Kherson. Will pulled together the documents we needed to turn in, and I got tickets and permission for her to enter the city. (Several times along the way here, I've gotten compliments to whomever was doing all the writing, it was obviously done by professionals. Um. Thank you very much.) 

Again, we had almost miraculous interactions. Getting into Kherson can be complicated, but it wasn't hard at all this time. We went to Migration as soon as we could, and this is where we ran into complications. We got there first thing in the morning, to find all the workers standing around, unable to do anything. Because of shelling the night before, their phones and computer system were out. No one had any idea when it would be fixed, or what we should do. We went to another office, in another part of town. They gave us a full consultation and checked through all our papers, but couldn't accept them, because we're not in their district. 

So, for the rest of the week, I called every morning to get an update. We spent time with our friends and helped out around church some. Finally, on Friday they said yes when I called. Asya got a call from the other office then, too, telling her that our branch was back in business. She had plans to help with a children's program that day, so she was not happy that we had to rush across town and turn in her paperwork right then. But we did. It took a while. She did make it back in time to be with the kids, though. 

Her residency card should be ready right around Christmas. We'll probably go back to get it and register her at the beginning of the new year, and then we'll be done with this until the end of martial law. Please keep praying about it until we get to that point. Thank you!