A picture is worth a thousand words!

Yes, those are visas in our hands! We are legal again at last, clear through until September 20 next year. Woohoo!!

We arrived at the Immigration office in Mazatlan, signed in, grabbed a cup of water and settled in for the usual long wait. Ralph went upstairs to use the facilities, and they waylaid him in the hall and asked him to get me as our documents were ready!! So I went upstairs, we each signed a letter, put our thumbprints on a few documents and the visas themselves, they copied our letters and that was that! We were there less than 10 minutes. We said our thanks and our goodbyes, and our “see you next years” to all the staff that helped us through and were on our way to the copy place and then to customs to get the truck legal.

We had to wait a few minutes to see the specific guy for the truck at customs, but once we sat down he quickly reviewed all of our paperwork and then without a word disappeared into another office. He came back in a few minutes and started to tell us about how we were late and that our hologram expired in July. As always, I have my notebook full of immigration/customs related copies and showed him the letter from July explaining the difficulties with immigration, a letter that he had stamped and written his name and phone numbers on. He just said “Okay” and stamped our letter and sent us on our way. We were so happy and so relieved!! What a tremendous blessing to have this squared away at last. Thank you so much for praying us through this whole process!