No rest (holiday) for the wicked...

Sounds like holidays will be in Tanzania this year. I finally got through to the lawyers yesterday afternoon to check on what was going on and try and find out what the meeting on Tuesday had achieved. Apparently, nothing concrete. The situation is now that the head of the Army is asking to see the original reports of the 'incident' and will then decide if he is happy to write something saying they have no further interest in the case and are happy for me to remain in Tanzania, etc. But he won't write anything that contradicts any of those original reports, and at the time of the meeting didn't know what was in them. So he's been given until Friday (after the flights depart) to get the reports and write (or not) a supportive letter to immigration. The lawyers tell me it could go two ways - he could write something positive and all will be well very soon. Or he might not and then we're stuck and might have to leave. We could still formally appeal (as everything is being done informally at the moment), but if the army won't write a supportive letter now then they would be unlikely to as part of a formal process, so the advice I have is that we'd likely end up being deported anyway. Of course, my money is for the Friday deadline to pass with absolutely no word from the army at all...

But still, it looks for now as though there's no chance of anyone leaving the country just yet. Which is a bit of a disappointment of course - and we now to have to work out how to balance things with the trips I've already agreed to do over the next few weeks but not abandoning the family too much. Anyone fancy a last minute holiday in Tanzania?!