Well, not the phone books exactly, but if you watch Steve Martin's character in the clip above then you can understand how we feel/act when we have our new residency cards in hand.
Once we made it to immigration, today's process was s-m-o-o-t-h! Just a quick look to verify that the new copy of our document was correct! They weren't at all busy, so we moved through the "appointment" phase to the pay phase to the picture/thumbprint phase to the walk-out-the--door-with-our-cards-in-hand phase in about an hour. Excellent!
These cards are good until mid-August (while they more closely review all of our documents.) We are supposed to call mid-July to see if our paperwork has finished the final review process and if they have printed our permanent (1-year) card for 2014-15.
All-in-all the smoothest process yet! This time and one more under this annual renewal process and then at the end of our fifth year, the process changes to a two-year renewal with very little documentation required.
Thanks for praying with us--prayers answered!
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