Geez man, chill out. In the rest of the world the chief is the First Engineer, the guy we call the 3rd is the Fourth Engineer. Who cares what you are...
Probably takes 15-20 days just receive, route, and process their mail. Visas or anything that involves any US Government office could take many weeks...
The problem is they do operate in the dark since the media does not know or care about anything that happens past the beach... and gCaptain does not...