We haven't received a 221g, or anything except an email response to my wife's inquiry which stated her case review has been escalated. I don't know if that's good news or bad news. Thanks for the hug. We'll keep all informed as this progresses. If she has her passport back by Oct 17, I think we can get it together to go by Oct 31. It'll be ugly, but we could go, even if I came back for a couple days to retrieve the rest of the stuff we couldn't manage in our haste.