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August 2023
Visa update, delays, and northern Michigan Good news: we received notification that our residency visas were approved, so we immediately overnighted our passports to NYC. Bad news: the process is nebulous (at best…) and the visa processing agency will not give us an estimate for when we will receive them, nor the current location of…
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May-July 2023
Criss-crossing the USA in 4000 long miles… In order to receive our residency visas, we had to travel to Midtown Manhattan for the requisite in-person appointment with the contractors who work for the Portuguese consulate. So we drove the 557 miles from Dundee, MI to Rockaway, NJ, spent the night, and took an early NJTransit…
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April 2023
Back in the USA! Lukus and Raymond (above, on the shore of Lake Erie) returned to S.E. Michigan at the end of March to prepare for their Portuguese visa interviews in New York City. A bit of a bureaucratic headache, we know the hard work will be worth it once we arrive back home on…
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March 2023
We bought a house! With the help of our realtor, Graça, who had showed us the garden/ruin property as well, we found this little slice of heaven in the village of Quatro Ribeiras. We were immediately enamored with the property. A cute 2-bedroom cottage, furnished, next to a stream, with driveway, parking, and a 1/5…
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February 2023
Fresh from his Intensive Portuguese Course at the University of Coimbra, Lukus was the first to arrive on Terceira. After a brief stay in Praia da Vitória, he found a lovely Air BnB in nearby Porto Martins with a view of the sea. Raymond soon arrived via Lisbon and we started exploring some of the…
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