God is so good! We, and most of our Gringo and Tico friends in Costa Rica, were amazed that everything came together in less than a year, let alone 9 months.
Some of the benefits:
-We don’t have to leave the country every three months for 72 hours to renew our passports
-We can legally work (FYI – because our papers were in process, I was okay to teach)
-We are covered under the free public health system
-We are except from tourist prices on national parks and similar foreigner fees
-We are one step closer to being accepted as members of the community and not foreigners
Here’s an overview of our immigration birthday:
4:45 - awoke (Though my alarm was set for 5 A.M. it was difficult to sleep. Kind ‘a like those Christmas Eve nights when you’re a kid).
6:00 - Depart for San Jose
7:15 - Arrived at Dirrecion General de Migracion y Extanjeria
Tabi on the potty bowl while we waited for our lawyer and for gates to open at 8:00
The clerk hadn’t arrived with our file, so we waited a long time for all of our bank receipts to be verified and each of our files to be approved. However, Naomi and our CR lawyer, Rosemarie, had some solid quality time together!
10:15 - Moved to the photo line for our CR ID card called a cedula.
10:45 - Paid for our cedulas to be mailed to San Ramon in 10 days, rather than waiting for the to be available for pick up on July 7th (the day before our trip to the USA).
Jonny Tico a.k.a. Juan Barba
Mareleen (English phonetics of a typical Tico's pronunciation)
La Machita - Little Blondie
Our view while we waited in line for Tabi's departure approval
Our monita (little monkey)
Tico Beards with our lawyer, Rosemarie
We then headed into downtown San Jose to our favorite eatery and hit the Asian supermarket before heading back to San Ramon.
Translation: HERE IT IS!
Cute little Argentina cafe on the corner. Great food and atmosphere!
Super Sony: one of the few Asian markets in downtown San Jose
Tabi decided she was old enough to drive: watch out, crazy Tica behind the wheel!
Thank you all for your prayers and support!
Please pray for us over the next three weeks as Jon makes and gives his 2nd Trimester mid-terms, completes more “red-tape” such as Naomi’s travel approval, our CR driver’s licenses, and preparing the Isuzu for the annual vehicle test.
Also we are making plans for our trip to the States in July. This will be our first trip back since arriving in April of 2008. We are excited to see old friends and establish new relationships with churches in the mid-west.
Our trip will be more than a vacation as we seek to connect with more churches and build our support team. Please pray that God will arrange our schedule, as 11 days is not a really long time to do this!
Please contact us if you have any questions about our trip or if you can offer any financial support to help with traveling expenses! (Would you consider sacrificing a meal out or a trip to the movies? $10 goes a long way to help our trip).
We can’t wait to see you!
2 comments:
yes!!!! Amazing. See you manana
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