On Saturday, we received a letter from USCIS about updating our fingerprin
ts. When I submitted the request, I specifically requested two dates with previous commitments that absolutely could not be moved. Well, our appointment is scheduled for one of those days...next Tuesday. My sister is being sworn in as an attorney before the Tennessee Supreme Court on that morning and I have the privilege and honor of presenting her on this once in a lifetime occasion. Upon receipt of the USCIS letter, I flipped-out because we were originally told by our agency that the Nashville office had been closed, so we were going to have to drive to Memphis for the fingerprints. Well, upon further examination, I noticed that we had been given bad information because our prints are scheduled for noon in NASHVILLE - yeah, we can make the appointment AND the swearing-in ceremony!
HUGE Prayer Request:
When we pulled-out of the Ukraine program, our facilitator promised to return a specific sum of money to us because the money was to be used to cover costs for court, translation of legal documents, etc. Since we never received a good referral, we never incurred those costs. Well, to make a long story short, our money was spent before it was actually earned, so we are still waiting for a refund. Our Ukraine family coordinator with AWAA left the agency in early May, so we are a little antsy about whether or not we are actually going to see the money. We need the money for our Ethiopian adoption. Prior to our family coordinator leaving AWAA, we were told that we should receive the money via wire by June 1st - that is Sunday. We are ready to close the door on this part of our adoption and look ahead to the road that God is leading us down now. We've gotten a lot of runaround since coming home from Ukraine without a child last November, so we're not too trusting of any information that we have received pertaining to this country and program. Please, please pray that we receive our money on time.
