Friday, March 28, 2008

Two more years?

Hi Everyone,
As you know, laws and things change almost constantly in Romania. Karen and I just found out two days ago that as of April 1st, a new law goes into effect requiring us to physically live in Romania for two years with our children before we can emigrate to the USA. It has something to do with the Hague Convention, which the USA is joining April 1st. And this issue is on the USA side, not the Romanian law. This new information about the two more years...is devastating!
However, the US Embassy and state department have gotten involved and are working with the immigration people at Homeland Security. It looks like that if we file with the US Embassy in Vienna before April 1st, we should be allowed to emigrate as soon as our adoptions are complete. It is not a 100% guarantee. But it does look promising.
Please continue praying for us that WE WILL RECEIVE GOOD NEWS REGARDING RETURNING TO THE UNITED STATES.
Karen and I are very weary at this point! Yesterday we spent the day running around getting documents together, doing our fingerprinting, and searching for a DHL shipping place....which of course had changed their address and failed to notify anyone. grrr.
It seems though, that all this running around might have been worth it. We found out today that our I-600 forms arrived at the Homeland Security Office in Vienna this morning. Meaning our forms were filed before the April 1st cut off date. God how I pray that they (The US Government) decides to give us the right to come home immediately.
GOD BLESS AND PLEASE KEEP PRAYING!

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