Cross your fingers

Sara and I submitted her paperwork for receiving a Danish work/residence permit this week. We had been putting it off, influenced by a number of horror stories about how difficult it was to get a work permit without a job in hand. We'd also been given bad information by the Danish General Consulate in Los Angeles, to the effect that we'd have to prove that we'd lived together for three years to be covered by a "domestic partnership" application. It turned out to be less than that. They also told us that we could extend Sara's tourist visa for a couple of months by going to our local police station and asking. That turned out not to be true either, which left us with about three days to sort out her paperwork and submit it. But it's all sorted now, and the administrator who helped us said it looks like it's all in order so now all we do is wait. It should take a couple of months to get sorted, but once it is, Sara can start taking courses, get healthcare, etc., all care of the state. She can also find a job, which she's pretty eager to do. So everybody cross your fingers that it all works out.