The above picture is of my very first moments with Emeline....Hang on sweet girl, we are coming back to bring you home for good!!!!!!!!!!!!On January 3, 2008 we got the news we have been waiting for....we are OUT of PGN. This means Guatemala has approved our case. We had been waiting on this approval and for one man to sign off on our file for over 6 months. We are praising God. We are so thankful to those of you who have been praying for Emeline. Please keep praying Emeline HOME!!!
If everything goes well, we will be picking Emeline up in 4-8 weeks. I am hoping we might have her by her birthday on Feb. 12th.
What is left in the process? Emeline's birth mother will sign the last and final time. Then, our lawyer will file for a new birth certificate that has Chris and me named as Emeline's parents. After that we are submitted to the US embassy and they will order a DNA test for Emeline. This is to make sure she is the same baby we applied to adopt. (The US Embassy ordered an initial DNA when Emeline was just a couple of months old.) After the US Embassy gets the results of this last DNA test, we will be given an appointment to get Emeline a VISA to enter the US. At this time we will make our travel arrangements and arrive in Guatemala a few days before this appointment.
PLEASE, PLEASE pray that the above steps go quickly and without complication. At the moment, everything is going crazy in Guatemala because of the uncertainty about the new adoption law that has taken effect as of January 1st. Please pray we do not face additional unexpected delays and requirements.
Also, please pray for all of the babies and families still in process in Guatemala. These babies need to get home to their families. Please especially pray for a wonderful Christian family I have come to know as we have been waiting together. They have been waiting for their daughter, Isa , to come home even longer than we have waited for Emeline. Please pray they too get out of PGN and that they are able to pick up their daughter soon.
GOD, PLEASE BRING OUR BABIES HOME SOON!
2 comments:
Thank you, Shannon! I am trying not to worry and obsess about getting another kick out and then not being put back into PGN along with the other thousand cases waiting to enter or re-enter PGN. Be anxious about nothing right?! So happy for you guys. Praying for a speedy pink! Love, Bekah
Yeah! I am so excited about Emeline coming home! I told our nun today the good news, and she inturn told the other nun. She is so happy for y'all! (She is doing better, by the way, although she still had a fever on Sunday. She is sorry that she missed y'all. She had the flu and intestinal stuff! How aweful!) Y'all and Emeline are much loved over here in France. :)
Rachel
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