Please see the following copy of an emai l just received from the Watsons regarding their final preparations to travel to Faith Alive to serve for the next 2 years. Faith Alive has qualified for an annual quota of visas. We are praying that the Watsons will receive their visas from this quota instead of having to use a tourist visa.
We'd appreciate it if you would contact your prayer chains and lists and ask for special prayer for this, as time is short to complete the process. thanks for your continued support.
"We completed our STR application and contacted the Nigerian Embassy in
Washington, D.C. to see how to pay. In the course of conversation,
the staffer there told us that we need additional documentation or
else our STR application would be rejected. That additional
documentation included:
Original Marriage License
Original Copies of College and Graduate Degrees
Nathan's Birth Certificate
So, we're working on getting all of these together but time is ticking
away on us. We'll have to recieve all the documents that are being
sent to us in Texas from California (birth cert. & degrees) and
Florida (marriage lic.) get everything in the mail by Wednesday if
we're even to have a chance of getting the visas in time for
departure. Monday the 4th is a holiday in the US and no govt. offices
will be open including the mail service. Please be praying for things
to arrive on time and for our application to find favor with the
embassy in New York where it will be processed.
Also, FA Team, if you could go ahead and send us a letter of
invitation for a tourist visa in the event that we do not recieve
everything needed by Wed. we can still expedite the tourist visas and
get the STR later.
--matthew"