*we are currently "interrupting" our regular blog posts (which to date have been the story of how we were called to adopt and is still a work in progress) because of a current "road block" that has been put in our process.
Matthew 17:20 - "Truly I tell you if you have faith as small mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Here is our "mountain":
This Thursday we were supposed to receive a court date for sometime in May in Ghana. Then he would become our son in Ghana, we would have received the adoption decree a few weeks later, and then would be able to file the final paperwork.
Instead of being given a court date our POA has been told that the court wants us to spend 4 weeks in Ghana bonding with our son before we go to court. IF we do this they will see us in court in July.
This causes two problems. We HAVE to submit our final paperwork by July 1 for the adoption to even be a possibility at all. We knew in advance we would make two trips to Ghana, but this adds a third, along with many additional expenses.
They want us in Ghana on May 15, and to stay for four weeks. I'm sure most of you realize the difficulty in being able to up and leave your jobs and other responsibilities on short notice for a month long period.
This affects not only us but another family that is currently in the process of adopting two teenage boys from the same Children's Center with the same POA. Other adoptions have occurred with this POA in this region and this requirement was not put on those families. No one has heard of this 4 week bonding period being requested before.
We are very thankful for those that have gone before us in the adoption process in Ghana and are working alongside us to see what can be figured out for this situation.
We need a mountain moved. We TRULY appreciate your prayers. There is a boy in Ghana, who wants a family so much "even if it's Norway". He has never been so close to having one, nor ever been so close to losing one.
To summarize:
-Adoption laws in the US are going to be changing soon and are beginning to affect the international adoption process.
-There are some new officials in Ghana that are not for international adoptions. When we started this process Ghana actually seemed like one of the easier countries to adopt from. That may be changing.
-New requirements seem to have come into play since we started our process.
-We are still continuing our process, but there are obstacles, especially with the timing, that are causing us GREAT concern right now.
No comments:
Post a Comment