Reports :

-Original Message-
My sweet darling, I have just been at the Consulate where I have had an interview. Everything was great, I was aksed some questions about my background, wages, the aim of my coming to your country, my parents' background and so on, and at the end I was told I am going to be given a visa and I was so happy to hear it, my sweetest, because it means we can be together on 15 ofJuly at last and I so much want it, Phil, I want it with all my heart and I hope it is going to happen to us. But my sweetheart, I was told at the Interview one thing that made me really worried and I really do not know what to do now. I was told about the rule at the Customs that is needed to fulfill by every person from former republics of Soviet Union coming to your country with a tourist visa. I'll have to show an amount of money at the Customs in Moscow to prove my ability to travel to your country and cover all my expenses. As I was explained, there have been a lot of people who went to your country with a tourist visa and did some crime and become illegal, and also especially after the terroristic acts in my country that happened this autumn and now I can go through the Customs only showing this money to prove that my aim of coming to your country is travelling and going sightseeing and not becoming a ********** or a criminal. I understand it is a very good rule for your country but I do not know what to do now because I could never imagine that it is going to be $2500. My love, I wish I could know about it earlier so that we could be prepared for it, but now when the tickets are bookedon Sundayand our happiness can be possible at last we have this problem and I do not now how to solve it. I have nobody to ask for help. I hope for your help, Phil, it is all that I can pray for. I am really shocked and worried now and so much want us to be happy at last but cannot do anything. The most terrible thing is that if I do not fulfill this rule at the Customs I'll be refused to go to you and my visa will become invalid and it means that I am not a reliable person and it is very possible that I'll not be allowed to get a visa to your country again for several years and we'll not be together. My love, I so much hope for you, I cannot return back to my life before you and cannot even imagine how miserable it would be. Darling, if you don't have that great sum of money, maybe you can borrow it for two days and I shall give it to you back at the airport. I am so much worried and I need you so much, my honey, so so much...