I received a short note from Galina. It was just a few words and she was very sad. After reading it I am also sad and mad as well. It is a helpless feeling really and has turned into anger that has new expectation that we can actually get something done. So, hang on. I might need you help.
For the second time in a row Galina Chentsova, M.D., PH.D. Psychiatrist and well known therapist and educator from Moscow was rejected for a Tourist Visa by the United States Embassy. Galina was a bit more upbeat than last year just because the person with whom she spoke was not a nasty as the one who rejected her last year for, "Being too close to Americans" and "having too much religious activity."
Has the United States under the leadership of George Bush turned things into such a Topsy Turvey situation that millions of the illiterate and unemployed can walk across the border illegally but a well educated, well employed, sponsored legal alien cannot get in? The answer seems to be a resounding, "YES!" Should we just have her fly to Mexico and then walk across the border?
Of course we shall not do that but the INS seems to have gone completely crazy. Pray for me as I contact my Congress Woman in Washington, D.C. How can we in America prosper when we keep out the best and the brightest?
This does not kill our desire to support her work in Russia but it keeps us from hearing from her and developing better ways to support Christians in Russia. We will keep trying.
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