A few details

I talked to our social worker today and got a bit more info about the delay in paperwork. I guess our agency in Korea (Eastern Social Welfare Services) hit their "quota" of kids adopted internationally for the year. Therefore the Korean government will not process anymore paperwork for international adoption from Eastern this year. This has happened in previous years but not quite so soon in the year and not to families that have already been waiting 3+ months since their referral. Eastern is planning to submit paperwork on all waiting children in January, however, the Korean government may not accept all of it at once. In that case it will be submitted based on acceptance date. So still a lot of uncerainties but it is good to get answers. Oh we finally got that paper from LA immigration today! Praise God for his work in this.

And the waiting continues until 2010

Hi everyone, we received some disappointing news today. The Korean government will not be accepting any more paperwork until 2010. So we will not be getting Ezra this year and we are unsure how and when they will process paperwork when they start back up in 2010. Mike and I are bummed, but trusting that God has a plan in all of this. Thank you for all of your prayers.

Please Pray

Hi everyone, so we expected to be done with LA immigration this past week but are still awaiting the all important I171. Please pray for it to be done and here soon. I am calling immigration tomorrow so hopefully that will go well. Thank you for all of your support I know God is using your prayers.

Good News!

I spoke with immigration today yeah! They informed me that our paperwork had been approved and was being sent to the visa processing center. The all important form we are waiting for should be mailed tomorrow or Friday! Thank you for all your prayers, continue to pray for the paper to make it to us/be mailed as they say and for our Korean paperwork to be processed quickly.

Plugging along

I was able to talk with immigration today, praise God! Our paperwork is being processed, I was told it has to be reviewed by a clerical person. The immigration officer said to giver her another week so I'll be calling again next week. I was really hoping to get the paperwork before we move but I know God will get it to us regardless. Thanks for all your continued prayers!

Immigration

I struck out this week with immigration. After multiple phone calls I still wasn't able to talk to anyone and get an update regarding Ezra's paperwork. Please continue to pray for swift processing both here and in Korea. According to our social worker Korea is slow to accept adoption paperwork at this time. Thanks everyone!

New Pictures

We got a nice surprise from our social worker this week. She went on a last minute trip to Korea and was able to take pictures of Ezra for us! I thought I'd share my favorite one.