One ought to give thanks for small miracles as well as large. And so I am giving thanks for a small miracle that occurred today, courtesy of the U.S. State Department.
This morning, I checked the State Department's online system for tracking passport applications. I did so mainly to find out whether my application materials had even been received; I had heard that, because the law now requires citizens to present a passport when returning from Canada or Mexico, there is currently a backlog of applications. I ordered expedited service of my passport, which I understood should take three weeks but which I suspected might take even longer due to this backlog.
Miraculously, the system indicated that my passport had been completely processed and was on its way back to me! And even more miraculously, as I was puttering about the house this morning, the doorbell rang--it was my passport being delivered!
This will shave at least two weeks off the time I need to go to Russia. I expect that, if my school in Moscow takes four weeks to process a new Letter of Invitation, and if the Russian Embassy processes my visa application expeditiously this time around, I will be able to fly out in late April or early May, not mid-May or early June as I had anticipated.
I am now free to move about the world.
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Mazal tov! (I would say "Happy Trails to You," but you'd have to ask your parents what the heck I'm referring to. :) ) This is good news.
Leah Silberman Jenner
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