Update:
So some have you have been confused with my short ever so frustrated post filled with tons of adoption lingo.
So now I will explain. Lincoln got Emigration Permission and a Passport ready from Korea. We were waiting on our government to give Lincoln permission to come into the United States. Once they say it is okay for him to come, they can issue a visa and Lincoln here we come. But without that approval, things were at a gigantic stand still…. nothing else can happen, until our file is approved. Our file consists of background checks, fingerprints, home studies etc…. The office that gives this approval was telling our agency and us that current processing times were 6 months. There is no other CIS office in the United States with wait times like this. This was simply unacceptable. A long time is 90 days and we had submitted our paperwork October 30.
So for the first time our agency suggested that we go to Memphis and ask what was going on. They do not usually send families, because if everybody goes, it would be a crazy mad house. But this was crazy…6 months!! UGH!!! They were going to have to give us a reason for this timeline, explain themselves, gives us our approval or we were going to move our file to another office. Our son was ready to come home.
So we made an appointment with the office earlier this week. We got up at 5 am, dragged poor little E out of bed bright and early and headed to Memphis for our 8:15 appt. Ready with all our paperwork and an envelope, postage paid, and email from another office telling them we wanted to move our file, or have our approval.
I didn’t sleep a wink last night, and was very, very nervous!! But made our way up to the counter, started explaining why we were there. We soon, got a supervisor, opinion, telling us 6 weeks. I then asked to speak to the supervisor because after all I drove all that way. She came out and I repeated our case to her. She quoted me again, 6 weeks. I told her that my baby boy was ready to come home and I was ready to go get him. I begged her to go check our file. Just to tell me that it was okay, that it was all there and they didn’t need anything else. I wanted to be sure that 6 weeks was going to be the max. I started to cry…..So she finally agreed.
She came back a little bit later and said, Kelly, why don’t you and your family go get some breakfast, get some coffee, and come back in an hour. OMG!!!!!!!!!!! SERIOSLY!!!!!!!!!! Ok, you got it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 hours later, we left the Memphis office with our approval in our hand!!!!! Our prayers answered!!!!!! Finally, we can move forward.
So we still have 1-3 week wait……..but it isn’t 6 months!! Hurry home baby Lincoln, we miss you so much…Mommy and Daddy have waited a very long time for you.