An adoption update

I wanted to share an adoption update for those of you wondering... We heard 3 weeks ago that we needed to update some of our documents for our dossiers that are in Ukraine... We got them all done in record time and they have been notarized, apostilled and sent to Ukraine. We also have decided to adopt all 5 of our children from Ukraine. We were told that Uzbekistan had changed some of their adoption laws and one of them was not to allow families with over 8 children to adopt.... this was in Aug. of 2007. Since we did not know how this would play out we waited, and prayed... because our 2 little guys are already in our hearts. Just last nite during devotions Mya prayed for Peter and Arkasha. It breaks my heart because they will not be easy ones to find a family for... especially Peter. So any on you out there with a love of special needs children I know of 2 very special ones... However, the Uzbekistan program for adoption is not moving very smoothly right now. So I would wait to see . Our agency has only been able to get one child home so far... Prayers are needed for Uzbekistan and the orphans.

Now I want to share that our last document we needed was a change of country from the USCIS... If you have read any of my older posts you know how terrible it has been to deal with this federal agency.... It looked like it was going to be about the same.... After a frustrating week of not getting positive information from them we were thinking here we go again... I was able to locate a contact at the Dept. of Homeland Security in Wash. DC and they directed me to write a letter which we overnited and they got it Thursday... Today this am I got a phone call that they did what we needed and an apology... I also have a contact number to call if we have any other needs or issues.... Again our Goliath was conquored.... thank you Lord for what you are doing.... We should have it Sat. and it will be notorized and apostilled and sent by fedex to Ukraine next week... We should hear some news soon.... praise the Lord!