Visa dramas continue...

A lot has happened in just over 2 weeks. Sometimes it feels like it’s been longer than that so it’s great that this blog gives me some perspective.

The Spanish Consulate General in Sydney is still on strike – going onto a month now – and Canberra has been forced to take on the Sydney load. We drove to the Spanish Embassy in Canberra last week to get Cat and Bee’s Spanish passports renewed which went without a hitch thanks to all the prep work before the 6-hour return trip. I was told they should arrive in the mail within 3 weeks.

Our visas on the other hand are another story… and right now I just want to crawl in a hole and cry. I won’t go into the details here but long story short is that we will need to apply for a Spanish long-stay visa (no work) and we’ve decided to apply for a French long stay visa as well. The reason for this is so we can break up our year using both Spain and France as our base, while travelling to the other Schengen countries using the 90-day visa free period allowed to Australian citizens.

At this stage I'm too emotionally exhausted to even write about it. I'm just thanking my lucky stars that we weren't counting on Hubby finding work there to make this plan work. The biggest frustration comes from thinking how much easier this would have been if Hubby just had his Spanish citizenship rather than facing what is. I need to work on that one...