When you think it's going to be smooth sailing, it just isn't. As I wrote yesterday, the immigration office accepted all of our paperwork and told us to come back this afternoon. Unfortunately,when we returned today, we found out that the document the church did was not the correct form. Now, the big question: why didn't yesterday's initial review catch the fact that the form was wrong so we could have corrected it this morning? The answer to that question is "no idea," except that the forms are so similar that, perhaps, she just didn't examine it closely enough knowing that the next reviewer is responsible for the "details."
The good news is that all of the rest of the paperwork was verified and accepted so no issues this year with the Spanish translation of our support letter.
The agent gave us copies of the correct form, and we returned to the church to have them completed and signed. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to get the documents notarized so we weren't able to take them back to immigration. Luckily, there is an attorney who is going to notarize the papers at church on Sunday.
On Monday after the morning campaign in the schools, we will return to immigration with the updated documents and find out if they can review them "on the spot" or if we have to make another appointment.
Every year I try to learn from our past mistakes so that, hopefully, the process will be error free. Every year I have another "past mistake" to avoid for the following year!
The saga continues . . . . .
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