Delay is certainly not denial.
My family and I immigrated to a new country 4 years ago. In those 4 years, we have been temporary residents. We’ve had lots of applications to become permanent residents and each have been denied.
When the first denial came in 2018, I knew we needed to change immigration lawyers immediately.
The Holy Spirit reminded me of a good lawyer I had heard about during gist. I didn’t know how to contact her, but I contacted someone who gave me her number.
We called her and paid her the fee which was over $5K.
She immediately went into action to assess our file and made recommendations. Following those recommendations meant paying an additional $5K.
I trusted God who led us to her and we paid.
Fast forward to August 2019, we received a response from immigration on our appeal – it wasn’t what we hoped for.
But the appeal was not denied either – it asked us to go to the preliminary stage and present all previous documents at a date that they will set.
Oh! How I cried when we got this letter. I immediately called the SL, I could barely speak from crying so much. She listened and encouraged me greatly. Asking me to trust God and carry on to the preliminary stage, and keep trusting God.
We had legal work permits so we were still able to work and do almost everything we wanted…. Still our stay was temporary.
I will share the testimony of how I got promoted at work over contenders who had been at the job for years and are citizens – at another time.
For a long time we didn’t hear any news from immigration regarding the new date set for the new process.
Then COVID happened and things really stalled.
Eventually we got notice of the new date being September 28, 2021.
I wasn’t really happy – it meant we had to put together fresh documents and pay immigration lawyer another $5K plus.
The Holy Spirit will always remind me to be grateful we have jobs that enables us to earn well and be able to pay this and other things.
As the date of September 28 2021 drew closer, reluctantly we started putting the documents together (not that our lawyer would allow us not to). Thank God for our lawyer – she was indeed sent by God – very dedicated to our cause and would go over and beyond for us.
I said to myself – I will send a message to the SL to tell her of the new date so she can pray with us – before I could get around to sending her that message, 3 weeks before this date, out of nowhere – THE SL SENT ME A MESSAGE – it read – THE JOY OF THE LORD IS YOUR STRENGTH; YOUR TESTIMONY IS AROUND THE CORNER. GOD IS IN CONTROL!!!
AHHHH!!! God!!!!
Is this how you are mindful of me!
I held on to the words above and kept on declaring.
The 5am declarations were a daily priority for me – my husband also joined in on some days!!
We prepped with our lawyer and she vetted all documents and everything and the 28th came.
This was a virtual immigration process due to Covid 19.
From the moment we began the proceedings, I knew GOD was really in control.
Sisters!!
There and then – we got our Permanent Residence!!!
No more delays, no more denials – my testimony has indeed become manifest!
All glory & praise be to God for his mercy and favour, for using our SL immensely.
God bless you SL🙏🏽
God bless the Rebirth Ministry 🙏🏽
