Just wanted to post an update on where we are at in the process, as I have been getting some inquiries as to how our process is going.
Dossier in Ethiopia--check!
Request for amended/extended I-600A--check!
I-171H form (granting our I-600A) received--check!
Passports renewed--check!
We have also sent off our I-600 along with our PAIR file (Pre-Adoption Investigation Report). This is a new process since we adopted Cruz, and we have been told it will take 7-12 weeks to process, as it has to be sent to the US Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the investigation of our case. Once approved, we will receive a PAIR approval letter and can then be submitted to Ethiopian court and get a court date to go meet our kids! So this is what we are currently waiting on. At the earliest we'll hear something end of January, and we're of course hoping for that, but it could be February as well. So we're hoping that maybe...just maybe we'll get to court in March, but we know it's all in God's hands and He's going to work this all out.
In past cases the US Embassy performs and investigation at the end of the process. So, because they are doing this at the front end, even before court, we are hoping for a speedy process from court to Embassy clearance.
Thank you for reading and continuing to pray for us in our journey. I have felt an unbelievable comfort in this adoption process, and I know the Lord is going to get T & M home in the right time (hoping early summer, and for our paperwork's sake we need to get them home before July 14, 2014!)
Dossier in Ethiopia--check!
Request for amended/extended I-600A--check!
I-171H form (granting our I-600A) received--check!
Passports renewed--check!
We have also sent off our I-600 along with our PAIR file (Pre-Adoption Investigation Report). This is a new process since we adopted Cruz, and we have been told it will take 7-12 weeks to process, as it has to be sent to the US Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the investigation of our case. Once approved, we will receive a PAIR approval letter and can then be submitted to Ethiopian court and get a court date to go meet our kids! So this is what we are currently waiting on. At the earliest we'll hear something end of January, and we're of course hoping for that, but it could be February as well. So we're hoping that maybe...just maybe we'll get to court in March, but we know it's all in God's hands and He's going to work this all out.
In past cases the US Embassy performs and investigation at the end of the process. So, because they are doing this at the front end, even before court, we are hoping for a speedy process from court to Embassy clearance.
Thank you for reading and continuing to pray for us in our journey. I have felt an unbelievable comfort in this adoption process, and I know the Lord is going to get T & M home in the right time (hoping early summer, and for our paperwork's sake we need to get them home before July 14, 2014!)
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