[JACQUELINE SARIO]

Thank you for your suggestion, Wendy. Yesterday was the deadline for waiting additional 8 weeks. I’ll give it another week and then start contacting the facilitator’s office again. They respond very quickly, usually within a day or two. If they respond with another “Everything has been filed and there’s nothing more we can do,” I think I’ll call a friend’s daughter who works for the state department and see if she can give me a name of someone at the Ecuadorian consulate. Maybe offering assistance to the facilitator in that way might get things moving. The container guy thought contacting the state department might make people mad and slow things down even further. What do you guys think?

[JACQUELINE SARIO]

Well, rats. I was planning on doing what you suggested anyway, like I did twice before, each time we passed a deadline. I was wondering if there’s a difference in the visa experience between people who actually lived in Ecuador for a couple of months physically present for their visa process, compared to people like us who are getting visas while still in the U.S., especially in the past few months.

[JACQUELINE SARIO]

I didn’t know that a person on pensioner’s visa couldn’t work in Ecuador. My husband is in his early 70s and we’re planning on retiring in Ecuador. He’s learning to become a piano tuner and was hoping to have a part-time income by starting a piano tuning service, maximum 3 pianos per week. Will this type of work/business be OK for pensioners?

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