"I evaluate our applicants’ legal and financial issues here at the Peace Corps. Your file has recently arrived at the Peace Corps Placement Office in Washington, DC. I noticed that you listed your car loan as a financial obligation on your application. Before I can grant you final legal clearance, I will need documentation that either this obligation has been paid in full (e.g. account balance statements) or that you have left behind sufficient funds to meet this financial obligation in your absence, as well as a mechanism by which monthly payments can be made (again, monthly account statements showing income and automatic deductions). If you have someone else assume this debt, we will need the original copy of a notarized letter from them stating this intent mailed to me at the address below. We have time before this financial issue can hold up your application, and we can move through much of the application process without final legal clearance. Please respond to all requests for information and documentation, particularly from the Office of Medical Services, even though this financial issue is not yet resolved. Please be aware that you do not want to take any concrete steps regarding your property until you have been offered an invitation to serve in Peace Corps. The invitation is the official job offer from Peace Corps. A Peace Corps assignment is not guaranteed until an invitation has been offered and accepted. Again, the program to which you were nominated does not depart for several months, so there is time before this can potentially cause problems. We will need proof that this obligation has been satisfied prior to your departure, so the application process will not be affected by this hold. Please contact me if you have any questions. Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you."
That was all... so I guess I'll cross that bridge when it comes. Sarah has a check mark next to the legal section on her account, so she is good to go. Next step is to supplement our application with the experience we've been gaining at the aquarium. Still waiting to hear back about our medical and dental information that we mailed in last month.
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