Some of you may know that our adoption has been going very well but that we’re now getting closer and closer to being at risk for having our children STUCK in Congo!! Having children stuck means that they’re legally you’re children and have passed through the court phase of adoption and that they have all legal documents to travel, like passports and visas, but the country they live in will not release them to leave.
The whole adoption process in Congo is still moving along….this suspension of exit letters began back in September 2013 just when we had been matched with A & G…and since then we’ve completed our adoption, met our children, submitted our I600 (petition to adopt and orphan), completed and passed the adoption case investigation by the US Embassy, received Congolese passports, and attended a visa appointment at the Embassy.
We are now updating a couple documents that the Embassy requested changes on at the visa appointment. Once this is complete and our children have visas (in a couple weeks) they would normally be ready for us to come pick them up! But since the DGM (immigration) in Congo aren’t giving exit letters to adoptive children we’ll be anxiously await this suspension to be lifted!!
The upside to all of this…we feel so blessed to have met our children’s foster parents, seen their home, and spent a lot of time with our agency in-country coordinator! They were all incredible people! The foster parents are retired congolese pastors who have a large; nice home, by third world standards…. And before our children lost their mother they were living on the streets so they now have beds, food, and most importantly love!!!!
Although we want them home with us we’re grateful for where the Lord has put A & G until that day comes. So, thank you for all your continued prayers…We believe the Lord will and can continue to do miracles in our adoption process and we anxiously await giving Him more and more glory as He does His thing!
Life in the Mystery 