Visa stuff

Weeks of getting forms and papers signed and then 5 hours of waiting at the FRRO office ended up with the conclusion of........ back to NZ you go. We do not meet the new employment rules that come into being about 3 months ago. The rule states that we must be earning US $25,000 each. Very hard for a start up company to be earning that amount in it's first year but there you go, that's the rules.

The kids jumped with delight at the prospect of heading back to NZ for a while until we could sort out a new visa and both DC and I felt ok about it all. It's just like a bit of a reboot, a restart, a reformation before heading back here again. The biggie for us is finances. We would need to give up our house here so we could get the bond back to pay our airfares and then once back in NZ we would need to get some finances to get us back again. Pfff though, we have seen how God can do it.

So our mind have been think and evaluating. Tasks ahead.... packing up the house, tickets to book, sort out what to do with the business while we are gone.

We spent ages on skype talking to family and friends about our days events and had the mixed emotions of maybe seeing family in the next 6 weeks versus waving goodbye to India for an unknown time frame. We know we would be back but it would be different, new house, new neighbourhood. The kids have made good friends with other children close by so all those things would be disrupted.

Then.... suddenly.... a new light began to emerge, a new possibility, a potential contract that would give us the required US$ 25,000 for David. It would mean that only my visa would be affected and perhaps only I would need to head back to NZ to change my visa from an employment one to an entry visa. Or, I could try a trip to the Delhi home affairs and see if they will let me change my visa to an X visa from within India.

So with this new glimmer of light we will have to see things actioned fast. We don't have time on our hands to wait and see what happens. It will need to happen fast and suddenly.

So we put all these things into God's hands. We knew it was not in our hands anyway and maybe God is just showing us who's got things sorted. 

So here I leave this post as a kind of.. to be continued episode. I am eager and looking forward to seeing what happens myself.