Adventures in Immigration

  The latest from Ecuador  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yDwdt0Koz2Ua_VUW2EDhn_mV8UosWpUC/view?fbclid=IwAR3Uw-0UDT1gekZdj7ma4ByqfigRsY4tdZlO2Hf2tnLuB0ObvQXaoU5kg64 : The National COE, in permanent session on Friday, September 11, 2020, unanimously by the full members, resolved: Issue the guidelines that will be mandatory once the state of exception regime has ended. Upon completion of the period of validity of the renewal of the state of exception issued by Executive Decree 1126, Constitutional Opinion No. 5-20-EE / 20 and in strict observance of article 226 of the Constitution of the Republic, for the purposes of developing and implementing measures of prevention and control to contain the massive contagion of COVID-19 in Ecuador, the organisms and institutions of the Central State and the Governments Decentralized Self-Employed, in exercise of their powers, must develop and implement regulations and public policies that ar...

  An update on things.  I have had to change the date yet again, but it is only a minor adjustment. I will be flying down to Ecuador on 10 October. We have an interview schedules in Guayaquil on 13 October, & if everything is good to go, we will have the civil ceremony on 20 October. This also requires me to stay for 2 weeks rather than one, but this simply gives me more time to get to know the country, as well as total immersion in the Spanish language as well. Sort of like learning how to swim by being pushed into the deep end of the pool...

  Went today to get my documents apostilled. Wouldn't you know it the state capital is shut down due to COVID concerns still (my county government buildings were not, to put it into perspective). So I had to drop them off with an SASE to return them to me when done. Working time 7-10 business days. So that puts me behind 2 weeks. I may miss my date of 10-5-20 because the documents need to be reviewed in Ecuador as well.