Hello, So the update - We are still waiting after submitting some documents for 221g on July 8th. It's August 29th now.
- The foreign ministry of SL did try their best to help us. I have to applaud their efficiency in this. They contacted the Bahrain officials and asked them what could be done. The issue was the Bahraini officials took more than 2 months to respond and say nothing could be done without my mother's documents. The SL ministry typed up a nice official letter explaining that the Bahraini officials don't offer police report without the relevant documents. This document is good but it arrived too late. So we have not submitted this to the embassy.
- After advice from 3 different lawyers, we made an affidavit explaining the situation and that we couldn't provide a police report from Bahrain. We also got another affidavit from a justice of peace in SL who knew about my mother's situation during the riots as he had personal knowledge. We wrote a longer explanation letter as well. We submitted only these 3 documents to the embassy on July 8th (about 1 month after the interview).
- We didn't have the letter from the SL foreign ministry then (on July 8th). After receiving the letter, we are unsure if now submitting this as a document will prolong the process even more. Plus the letter basically states the same thing we have in the affidavit, that no police report can be given from Bahrain without relevant docs. I might create a ticket and ask them if we should submit this and at this point, we've got nothing to lose.
- I have asked for an update from the embassy and they said they are waiting for certain clearance. They are not able to tell us when it will be done.
We are very anxious. I really really hope my father wouldn't have to travel alone without my mother