Immigration Issues

Jens, our new campus director and CFO, and Karin, his wife who does much of our accounting among other things, are German. Jens applied for a Religious Worker Green card. His
Religious Worker Status was approved originally and was in process for
the green card. Now they received a letter saying that his Religious
Worker status has been revoked.... meaning that his job is not
specifically religious enough even though he works at a Christian
college, he has no seminary training. They had two weeks to
protest. After a week of talking to immigration lawyers and local politicians, it does not look like anything can be done to have the decision revoked.... besides a complete miracle from God.

Originally I thought they were told they had to be out of the country by November 6th. This information was incorrect. However, they will have to leave and will plan on leaving after this semester. They will go back to Germany. They must wait at least 6 months and they can apply for the appropriate VISA. I have to point out - this is the minimum time but it could potentially take years until the VISA is granted...... It is just something no one knows.

So now we are again in a position that we are looking around for a new campus director AND now an accounting type person too.

Dave Owen, our president, left Guam last Friday for the States. He is hoping to recruit teachers for PIBC especially for our Chuuk campus. Now he is also looking for someone who would like to come and serve as Campus director, Financial person, and Accounting type person. Since these are missionary positions, it would have to be someone who could raise support quickly.