I begin this blog as we prepare to add to our family again. Baby Paul was born in March 2007. This month is his first birthday month. He is from Korea and coming home in about two weeks. This blog will be our new family journal.
We decided in the Fall of 2006 that we wanted to grow our family again. We talked about China again. We talked about Korea. We learned about Taiwan. We chose Taiwan. God had other plans – OF COURSE! We sent our paperwork and small family album to Taiwan in March 2007. The day after we sent it off, our sweet baby boy was born – IN KOREA!
In September 2007 we got an email from our home study agency about a baby in Korea. We talked. We prayed. We talked. We asked questions. We talked. We prayed. Our detour began – for the new additional joy of our lives. We hurried through updating our home study. We prepared the few papers needed for Korea and it was all sent to Korea at the end of October. We anticipated traveling to get our boy at the end of January or in February. And we waited and waited and waited. We planned. We set up a nursery. We prepared.
We waited longer for our legal papers from Korea to file with the US immigration office to get his Visa. We finally got the paperwork on February 1st. It was hand delivered to immigration on 2/5. We got approval on 2/13. That was record timing. We were thrilled. We then had to wait for immigration to forward our file to the National Visa Center. We waited and waited. The National Visa Center never received our papers. We called and emailed and emailed and emailed everyone we could imagine - still no receipt. Our travel to our boy was waiting on this paperwork.
Finally after calling our congressman’s office and talking to “Brooke” – within one day she got our documents sent to the National Visa Center. She was our angel last week. Within four days we got the call from our agency rep, “Julie” informing us we were already approved for travel. She was our second angel in one week.
We are approved to leave as soon as possible to get our boy. We will leave on March 26 to travel to Korea to bring our boy home. We are still pinning down plans for home sitting, Lacie care and dog care. We will have the help of preschool teachers, neighbors, friends and family to make sure our child, home and animals are well taken care of. More angels!
More information to come – and Lacie’s reactions so far. . .
1 comment:
It's interesting to hear about the process. We have some other friends who have adopted from Ukraine recently, which is SO much more complicated! I'm glad the adoption process wasn't so crazy. Thanks for sharing your journey. It's great to see your beautiful kiddos!
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