Woops.

We just learned that the USCIS (immigration) approval that is supposed to take about 8 weeks to obtain and we thought we were already 6 weeks "in waiting" for has not even begun yet. Our agency had an oops. Slip up. Oversight. We're so sorry but.......
We signed our homestudy April 29th and believed our application for USCIS approval was immediately submitted.
Our dossier is FINISHED. We busted our tails to get it done so we would be ready to go when we received our USCIS approval in the mail. We've been anxiously checking our mailbox every day for our acceptance form. Little did we know our application was not even there yet.
We can do NOTHING until we get this approval. Ethiopian courts close August through mid September and we were so hoping our dossier with USCIS approval would make it in before that happened.
A letter was submitted with our application to expedite the process because she is a special needs child with HIV. We will pray that happens. That's all we can do. Bummer.
God be with Meadow while she lives in the orphanage. We ask that You would protect her, comfort her, sustain her health and bless her caretakers, prepare her heart for our family as You prepare ours for her. That is our request.
And so we wait.