Visas are sorted!

Last Monday, we received our passports back from Canberra Consulate:

5 of them had the visa labels printed, (Nikolas' had to be sent off to Brisbane to be sorted out, so we did that straight away).

After a phone call on Tuesday morning to ask for another form to be emailed (just one saying he was healthy and well and able to travel), we didn't hear anything further, until Friday, when we received another parcel in the post. Nikolas was allowed to open it:

After 9+ months of waiting (sometimes patiently, sometimes impatienly) we are thankful to announce that ALL of our passports and visas are now in our possession.

We booked our flights Saturday afternoon, Lord Willing, we leave Perth at 12:15 afternoon on Tuesday the 27th September 2016. We will arrive in Brisbane at 6:30pm, and spend the night in Brisbane, before leaving Australia at 10:30 am, arriving Port Moresby at 1:30pm, then arriving Lae at 4:45pm on the 28th September.

Thank you for your support and prayers, and we ask that you please keep us in your prayers, as we finalise our packing, and start our see-ya-laters!

Take care!

the van der Wals xx




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