I am writing this blog post begging for your prayers for me. I covet your prayers because everything that could be going wrong is going wrong, or it sure feels like it.
Here in Brazil you have to get married in a civil ceremony or you are not married. In the US, the religious cerimony serves for this but here it does not so you have to either have the civil part at the wedding (like I did) or you go to the Registro Civil and take care of the paperwork there. I am wishing now that we had done the second thing. When you get civily married at the church, you sign a paper with the pastor and 2 witnesses. This paper has to be registered with an official signature then taken to the Registro Civil by the couple for the Registro Civil to review the paperwork and then have the couple sign another book to make the wedding and marriage completely official. We took the paperwork to the RC and there were errors. We corrected the errors but the pastor was traveling to Manaus so we sent the paperwork to him next day mail. He sent it back, we got the other signatures and went today to finalize things as I have to have the marriage certificate to start my other paperwork in order to live here permanently. There were still other errors. I left out of the RC in tears. My time on my tourist visa is ending and I don't have what I need for my permanent and it is still wrong and the pastor is getting ready to return but not for a few more days. Not enough time for express mail. I have a feaer of being expulsed from Brazil to not be allowed to return becasue of all the issues my parents have had with their visa. So, I went back home to get my passport and mom and I left for Sao Sebastiao for the Federal Police office so I could get my tourist visa extended another 3 months. On the way there, the little truck had the emergency light on and it started to rain. Once we were there, they started the paperwork, mom went to pay the tax for the extention and while I was waiting, the young man asked about a fee I was levied in Sao Paulo. This fee came from a mistake 7 years ago and I was told all was cancelled from this error. I got scared but he made copies of all my passport pages. Mom arrived and I got my extention.
I am still stressed and stretched to beyond my limits so please pray for me because the wedding paperwork is still not settled.
I am having issues settling into how red tape works here in Brazil and that red tpae is strangling me.
I love you all and hope to have a happy post soon.
fofinha posted at 1:16 PM
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