HOLD ONTO YOUR HATS....YOU ARE A BOUT TO GET BLOWN AWAY!!!!

We have just been fast tracked!! The 4 points below is how it usually happens:

1. Usually the home study is sent in for approval from the state, in Montgomery, and then travels to Atlanta. It meets up in a file marked Edwards that already has our application, fingerprints, FBI dossier, etc. We wait for approval.
2. Upon approval from CIS, Citizenship and Immigration Services, we start compiling the documents for the dossier to be submitted to Ukraine. After gathering all of documents, making sure nothing is dated later than 6 months old, the dossier is sent to Ukraine to our case worker in Kiev, Sasha.
3. Sasha has the dossier translated and the asks for a date to submit our request. The date arrives, Sasha submits our dossier, we wait.
4. Then we receive a date to come to Ukraine and begin our month long legal submissions and interview and finally court date for adoption. If approved we wait 10 days and then kids are ours.
5. We fly to Kiev, apply for visa and temporary passport for both kids, have medical exams required by US, get turned down because of HIV positive, submit a waiver, docs sent to CIS in US and equivalent office in Moscow for approval. When accepted, we leave for home.

***OK, things have now been fast tracked!!!!!! Upon completion of the home study it was sent to Montgomery and ALSO to Ukraine along with documents giving the exact names and birthdates of our kids. We are already to the point of Sasha requesting a submission date. This will put pressure on the CIS knowing that we will know next week what the submission date will be. All docs have to be in Sasha’s hands by that appointment. So items 1 and 2 are being done at the same time.

The last couple of people going over to adopt in Ukraine received the date to travel the week after the submission date. And the travel date was 1 month after the submission date. SOooooooo this means that we could be in Ukraine as early as the end of November or the first of December!!!!!

WOW!! Even though this is what we were praying for all along, logically looking at past cases the Spring would have been the earliest we could have hoped. God is answering our prayer even as we had such little faith as we prayed it….Before Winter, Before Christmas….it might come true!!

Please continue to pray:
1. That the kids will want to be adopted
2. That God will push the paperwork from desk to desk in His timing
3. That He will bring in the last monies needed: we have $24,000 of the $40,000 needed! - WOW! How Great Is That!!!

Thanks, Dan and Leslie