The Week Flew By!

Monday started a whole new adventure for us.  We went and picked up our adoption decree from the lawyer and went and filed for a new birth certificate.  Then we went to the Embassy to file our I-600, for those of you who don’t know, the I-600 is the paperwork that declares the child an orphan, and proves that they can be adopted.  Yes that’s backwards in my opinion too.  The adoption decree stated that we could take him out of the country and he was legally our child.  So we didn’t think there would be a problem.  We got to the Embassy and they let us in and gave us the I-600 application.  They wanted a copy of the decree and our dossier so we took the application and all our paperwork with us and filled it out and made copies and took them back the next day along with the new birth certificate for him.

We turned it all in and they told us it could take up to 60 days for the process! WHAT???? Oh my goodness, we didn’t see that coming!  We left the Embassy devastated.  So now what, what do we do, do we stay? Does just one stay?  Our middle son had to go back, he couldn’t fly back without one of us, we have another son at home, we can’t stay gone that long, but now we have a new son here, so do we leave him?  He won’t understand.  I really hated this feeling, I felt I had to choose between my kids! Surely this isn’t how it’s supposed to be! 

 

We decided to go back to the Embassy and try to get some more answers.  Well they answered us, but not how we wanted them to.  The answer was still the same.  So we thought, maybe they will have it all done by the end of the week.  God had done so much to get it all worked out for us, surely we will be taking him home with us!

The week flew by!!! It was Friday; we were going to go back to the Embassy one last time to see if they had any news for us.  Only to find out, the answer was still the same. 

this picture tears my heart to pieces

Saddened by the news we went back to the hotel to spend the last few hours we had with our son before we had to leave.  We had talked to the father and mother of the orphanage and told them what was going on and they said they would continue to take care of him till we could return for him. 

 

 

 

me and koby and some of his friends from the orphanage