Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Only 20 can stay!

After our long day of detainment, the Guyana immigration department continued to insist that all 41 of us who were on their “list”, needed to leave Guyana by October 1. Secondly, the church could have only 20 LDS missionaries in Guyana at one time. At the time they made the ruling, we had close to 70, which included 7 senior couples. Thirdly, all missionaries would have to have work permits to stay in Guyana.

We had all applied for these work permits many times but the immigration office had continued to set them aside and not issue them to us. Now, they were telling us we were all illegal because we had no work permits. Whatever...

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