Stuck

So not even 2 minutes after I published the last post, the lady from Senator Harkin's office called me back. She said that Narasimha's visa had been processed, and was done, but that it had just been done so he was going to miss his flight. I hung up, and just waited because I still hadn't talked to him for several hours (at this point, he didn't even know that I had ever talked to the Senator's people). I waited a while, and still hadn't heard, so I called the hotel to see if they had seen him. The transferred me, and next thing I hear is Narasimha saying "hello." I asked him if he got his visa. He said it wasn't done, so he came back to the hotel and checked back in. I told him that I had just talked to the Senator's office, and that it was supposedly done. We didn't know what time the Embassy closed, but he decided to run (literally) and see if he could get it. By this point he was too late to catch his flight. So he ran to the Embassy and it was closed, but someone was there and talked to him. They went in to look if the visa was finished. They came back out and said it wasn't, and that he could come back tomorrow after 3:00 pm. They also said "How would the Senator's office know it was done?" So he came back and called me, and I called Senator Harkin's office again. I talked to the lady who helped me before, and she said that it had definitely gotten printed, because she talked to the main boss of the whole Embassy, and that person said it was done. So no visa today, and no real proof that it's really ready. The only flight that Narasimha can find for tomorrow leaves Ottawa at like 4:00, and lands in Minneapolis. But Narasimha says the roads are pretty bad up there, so even if he did get the visa right at 3:00, it would still be pushing it to make a 4:00 flight in the traffic of the Friday before Christmas, with the roads in not-great condition. And, if this visa thing doesn't get taken care of by tomorrow, the earliest Narasimha could leave Canada would be next Thursday, because everything is closed for the first half of next week.