Thanks Diane. We had not heard about the slow down at customs and we unaware of such delays. That does shine some light on the subject. We have a paralegal in Belize City working on this for us and from what we have heard, he is very good and has helped many folks gain their QRP status. He had talked about a contingency status that would release the container until the final papers came through, but said since the Interpol thing came back clean and we sent him copies of our account balances, he seemed to think that would not be necessary. It costs $1000 Bz for the contingency thing which according to him would be refunded at a future date. Apparently, I misinterpreted the residency thing about buying property here.