Sounds like an emergency to me.
Her daughter, who is a lawyer, is pushing every button and pulling every string she can find. I just hope it is in time.
Yes, Chilean Spanish is different. I learned mine in Costa Rica, refined it in Venezuela and then went there and found out I had to do a bunch of relearning.
I would have been fluent in Spanish, after working 2 1/2 years in Peru...but I was then transferred to Chile and lived there for 5-years and worked two years in Argentina...another country not known for its precise Espanol.
Geez, between the two of them, I’m lucky I can order a taco in a US Mexican restaurant.
Give me her first name, I’ll pray for her to make the right decision & that the docs do the right thing.
She needs to do this now.
Languages are crazy. It’s like putting a dude from the Bronx in Sydney - probably not going to end well, even with Spanish.