Monday, February 8, 2010

Needed Prayer for Travel!

We are asking you to pray for us today. Matt's passport expires in April 2010. Our travel agency knew that when they reserved our tickets last week.
Saturday while reading over some information they FedEx to us Matt saw he needed a valid passport 6 months from travel. Unfortunately, he did not sleep well Saturday night! The information we have states Dubai and Ethiopia adhere to this strict 6 month policy.

Matt called Emirates airlines on Sunday and the lady he spoke with said he would be able to board in New York because we were just having a short layover in Dubai but our destination was Ethiopia.

This morning the travel agent emailed us back and basically said she was unaware of his expiration date, which is not true because we have the email I sent them, and she thinks we should risk trying to board, but if we can Matt needs to get a new passport.
Matt called the airlines again today and this time the man he talked to said he would NOT be allowed to board in New York!
So...
This means we would have to go to Chicago and get an expedited passport sometime today, tomorrow or Wednesday.
PLEASE pray for Matt. He has work, meetings, things to finish before leaving and now a possible trip to Chicago.
He feels overwhelmed knowing he has to go because without him I could not bring Y home as he is the petitioner for adoption.
We never knew about any of this expiration stuff and it is something we should have known and would have been easy to take care of.
Pray things get worked out very quickly. We do not want to ask Ethiopia for an embassy date further out because they could already be full and who knows when we could go get our little boy.

4 comments:

Mike Wald said...

Praying for you guys!!! What a stressful situation. It's not too big for God though!

Angela said...

I pray everything works out and you're husband can get an expedited passport ASAP! (AngelaW from the forum)

HollyMarie said...

Ack! I will pray... it will work out but the added stress is incredible I'm sure! Sorry for these frustrations!

rachel said...

Oh no! Praying...