Viaje de Amor: Waiting some more

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Waiting some more

Well, Today I was enjoying a beautiful day on the beach on LBI and received and email from our Agency. She said there was another hold-up. She was getting our dossier ready yesterday to send to Honduras and she noticed that our approval from the consulate in New Your had been sent in English-she found out it needs to be in Spanish. Can't it just be translated with the rest of our paperwork?!? Well, they need to get one now in Spanish so we wait some more. Ariana reminded me again "Remember mommy, the reason it is taking so long is that it is going to go fast once there". I am beginning to wonder. Not too much though. I still am at rest with our waiting and I know that is only from GOD! Please continue to be in prayer for that peace for our whole family! We continue to pray that God is preparing her little heart for the tremendous changes that are going to take place in her little life. Hopefully we will have great news to share soon!

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Andy and AliciaAugust 11, 2011 at 4:47 PM
I am away from home this week, but spoke with Alicia to learn the news of the delay. I was going to write a post based on Psalm 27:14, but Alicia beat me to it. King David in the midst of persecution (we are far from being persecuted) wrote these words:
Wait for the LORD;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the LORD.
Certainly, we can lean on the Lord and patiently wait...Though, I am not too good at patiently waiting.
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Where are we in the Adoption Process?

We wrote a post titled What is the Process? that outlined our process for adoption for a child from Honduras through Living Hope Adoption Agency. Here is our journey in the process, so far:

We decided to adopt (see Our Journey to Adoption)
We discussed where we would adopt from (see Why Honduras?) and the age and gender of the child we were hoping to adopt (see Boy or Girl?).
We submitted the application for adoption with Living Hope Adoption Agency. (Feb. 3, 2011)
By the grace of God we submitted the contract to Living Hope in early February. (see Hurdles) - Feb. 7, 2011
We began the courses and each night was spent in front of the computer learning about the issues related to adoption. (see Back to School) - Feb. 24, 2011
We pulled together all of the documentation for our Dossier (see Time to do the paperwork!) - Mar. 3, 2011
We completed the Home Study with our Agency (see The Office Interview and 5-6, Pick up Sticks) - Mar. 28, 2011
Preliminary immigration paperwork is sent to the US government Citizenship and Immigration Services. (see In the Mail) - Apr. 13, 2011
We traveled to Philadelphia to get our "Biometrics" (AKA - fingerprinting) done. - May 25, 2011
We have received USCIS Approval - June 13, 2011
Our psychological evaluation is completed. (see A New Step, All "Psych"-ed Out, Dossier On The Way) - June 14, 2011
Our Dossier needs to go to Harrisburg (see On To Harrisburg) then to New York (see New York, New York!, Back From New York) for review.
Our Dossier gets finalized and sent to the Honduran government for translation and approval. (See Paperwork Goes International) - Aug. 19, 2011
Our Dossier needs to be translated. (See Translated!) - Oct. 17, 2011
Our Dossier was reviewed by IHNFA (see Sooner Rather than Later?) - March 14, 2012
We had to complete more paperwork to have our Dossier approved (see More Paperwork, Off to Harrisburg, and New York, New York) - March 29, 2012
Our Dossier was approved by IHNFA. (see Happy & Heavy Heart) - June 1, 2012
We were assigned a "wait number" (see We Have a Number) - June 18, 2012
We received a "referral" to adopt two children from the Dirección de Niñez Adolescencia y Familia (DINAF). (see 5...4...3...YES!) - June 6, 2016
The next step is for us to travel to Honduras. We will be in Honduras for about 5 days to work through the finalization process for the adoption and with the US Consulate for our son and daughter's US citizenship. (see 1st Trip is on the Calendar)
We will make a second trip to Honduras for an undetermined length of time to pick up our son and daughter, finalize the process and bring them home. (see A Date to Sign!)

Yet to be done:

Once we return home, we will have a series of post-placement reports that need to be completed.

Viaje de Amor en Ingles

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Waiting some more

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