Urgent Ellis family Visa Prayer Request!

Hello everyone,
We pray that you all had a wonderful Christmas and are ready for this new year! We are still in California, visiting family and supporters, on our way toward Taiwan. We have an urgent prayer request to ask of you all. In order to apply for our visas in San Francisco, we need some official letters from the government of Taiwan. Our papers were turned in in October, and they still have not been approved. Once they are approved, they still have to be mailed to us here in the U.S. Once we have them, we apply and then it takes at least 3 days to process them here, more time if there are any problems. We leave for the San Francisco area on Tuesday, and only have about 12 days there. We need those papers to be approved and sent from Taiwan and make it here super fast! If they don't, all the options for us are very expensive (like come in on a tourist visa, and then all fly to Hong Kong to process our visas, which would be 6 tickets, hotels, etc...)
We also have to ship our things soon from the U.S. to Taiwan, and have to be in Taiwan when the shipment arrives, so once we send the shipment, we HAVE to be in Taiwan 3 weeks from that time. Visa delays would be a disaster for receiving our shipping.
God has come through in so many amazing ways as we have prepared to move. He has provided finances, confirmations, and encouragement. Just the other day, Katie's mother took us on a tour of a historical site here. Our tour guide had lived in Taiwan, and before that lived in Hawaii! 2 places we have lived. She encouraged our children, and said that they would love Taiwan. She even had moved her kids there and sent them to the same schools that our children would go to! This is the second time something like this has happened. In Yosemite Park this summer, we ate in the lodge and the people who helped us were from Taiwan and Hawaii!
Please pray that God moves miraculously and that the visa is approved, and makes it super fast to us in the mail.
Thank you all for your prayers. We also still need to raised $4,000 for a van and $5,000 to clear dental and medical bills (on our credit card). Praise God and thank you all that we have our tickets, shipping, and some initial start up money already covered!
many blessings,
Sean, Katie, Sophia, Max, Joseph, and Kai Ellis