Legal at last

We finally have our visas! We should have got these before the end of 3 months in Rwanda, i.e. November, but due to a lack of understanding on both our part and the diocese, we were late. The process finally got started in December and has involved at least 6 visits to the visa office in Kigali and a similar number to the Episcopal Province Office. It’s very wearing and especially difficult because we are so far away from Kigali.

Our visa situation is not unusual – during our last visit we met a British vet who was still trying to get the necessary paperwork after 4 months here and a young German girl who had just got her visa in time to go home after nearly 1 year in Rwanda. No-one seems to particularly mind people being here and working : it is only when you want to leave the country that a valid visa becomes important.