Another Setback

I really can't believe that I have to write this post. It is so annoying! I have to redo my US paperwork, that means file another I-600A and update my homestudy for the 4th time. I have been absent from blog world for the past 2 weeks because of this. Two weeks ago, this coming Monday I was looking for flights to Haiti, so that we could go meet Dania and file our last bit of paperwork to bring her home. We were planning on leaving Oct 7th with my adoption agent, filing the paperwork on the 8th or 9th, return home and wait 3-6 weeks for the all clear to go pick her up. It was looking like she would be home early November, then on Tuesday I get the call that immigration can't find my current paperwork, all they have is some expired stuff from 06. To be completely fair, I let an application expire because I was in the process of filing something that would replace that file, only they lost it twice, so my application was never processed. To make a long story short, it is just easier to do it again rather than fight it, or try to prove that I was right. Even if I "won" they still need the papers that they can't find.

I was terribly put out for a week, but last week I hit the ground running, and now I have done everything that I need to do. The social worker is coming Wednesday and that is the final thing that we need to do. Immigration has to process my application and DFACS has to give us clearance, but that is all stuff that is out of my immediate control. I wrote a short and sweet note to accompany my paperwork, pleading that they expedite it. There is one tricky area that could hinder everything and that our FBI fingerprints, they expire on Dec 2nd, so we have to have Dania home by then otherwise having her home by Christmas because nearly impossible. It can take 2 months just to get that appt, and an appt. can not be issued until the Homestudy is completed and submitted. So needless to say, I felt deflated, but I am happy to say that God's grace is sufficient and I have rebounded. The agency that I hired to finish this mess up for me is completely dumbfounded by my situation. She has also stated on several occasions that it "is a miracle" that Haiti even allowed it to finish. Usually when someones paperwork has been through what mine has been through, the adoption is disrupted and they make you start all over again or not let you finish. She has told me that she can't even imagine what the director of the Orphanage had to do to see this one through, so for that I am truly grateful and I see the hand of God in it. Dania has already been adopted in Haiti, so technically she is mine if I lived in Haiti. This complicates things a little, meaning that she will not be a US citizen when she reaches the good ole USA, but we will have to adopt her stateside. I know that she is waiting for us, so I put my hand to the plow and keep going.