We move in 27 days. That's not very long from now.
We are in the process of applying for a Taiwanese visa. We have all the papers together in a file ready to be mailed. They have been sitting in the filing drawers for several weeks now.
Why haven't we mailed it?
We are waiting for the final detail to arrive in the mail: a document that has been express-mailed from Taiwan at the beginning of November. It was supposed to arrive within 10 business days, but it's stuck in Chicago somewhere.
We received a letter last week from USPS International Research something or other. It was a paper asking if we had received this letter, that the Taiwanese government was asking if it had come or not. I returned it with an X in the spot stating the letter had not come.
Rex called USPS today to try and find where it ended up. He waited on the line for 40 minutes. No one picked up. Finally, he hung up the phone. There are other, more urgent things to do today than track an express letter three weeks late - things like finish a doctoral paper before its deadline tomorrow.
One day the document might come and we can continue the application process. Until then I'm checking my mailbox daily - and hoping.
Disclaimer: I'm not too worried about the situation (only frustrated) because I know I can go to Taiwan for an entire three months without needing a visa for entry. This process is for a residence visa as the spouse of a Taiwanese citizen. This route is the way the we've been told we need to do it. We are just becoming aware of how little control we really have over the mailing system.
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