Legals

Finally, after a super strenuous process Virgil, Eli and I are finally allowed to stay in the country, Its a long story but I'll keep it short...

our residency cards

What should have taken Virgil 30-60 days to complete took 6 months! 6 months for him to get his Carne Extranjeria (residency cards).  I shouldn't be surprised, and admittedly so, 4 months into waiting to hear a response from the immigrations office, I wasn't really surprised at all. Eventually Virgil found out that one of the immigration offices lost his papers and he "basically" had to start over again. That was in January of this year. No problem. He resubmitted his paperwork with any and all corrections and was told that he would find out in about 30 days. Of course in the process of all of this we had our tickets bought and were heading out to the USA in February...for 31 days. Virgil had to get permission from immigrations to leave the country...they only let you leave for 30 days. Dilemma. There was no going back now though. We were filling his papers and leaving the country. We will figure it out eventually. Sure enough, after 6 months of waiting, the immigrations office finally approved Virgil's paperwork and he was to come get his residency card. That was exciting. Fantastic. We have waited 6 months for this! Except now Virgil had to leave the USA early. One less Paloma trip for him, one less day visiting and one peaceful flight back. For me, it was a different story. One more Paloma trip, one more day visiting and one VERY long flight home with my ever so sweet no sleeping 7 month old. Awesome. We all survived though. Virgil's residency approval meant that Eli and I could finally apply for our residency. So we did just that, and rather seamlessly and two trips to Lima later Eli and I no longer have to make border runs. 9 months later we can finally relax and stay put.

Its official. We are here. We are here to stay for a while Peru! :)

Watching a movie together while we wait for our flight