Today we heard from Nathalie who has been ushering our visas through the bureaucratic slog. It is normal, when a couple is not legally married, that the partner’s visa takes 6 to 8 weeks longer to go through the canton’s process as the Federal authorities want to look over the file. With the hoped-for departure date so near (May 12), we felt once again thrown into a tizzy. We each went through a series of what-ifs and what-can-we-do-about-it-ifs. Knowing we have no solid answers, we went about our day, trying to get whatever pieces of preparation done that were possible. For me that meant working on irrigation plans; Jon, on tax data.