Friday, March 30, 2007

FBI Fingerprints

Our day started early. The alarm clock sounded at 5:00 this morning, and by 5:45 we were on the road. We had an 8:00 appointment and didn’t want to take any chances with Atlanta traffic. We arrived about 6:40, so we stopped at a great American institution for breakfast: The Waffle House!

We got in line at the application office at about 7:45 and by 8:30 we were out the door. It would have been even quicker than that, but just like my experience the last time around, mine took a while. Apparently I have very undefined fingerprints, so they have to print me several times before they get what they need. I went in before Zack and he was done WAY before me. But thankfully they use the electronic fingerprint machines so the technician immediately knows whether or not it was a good read.

So I made a short story long, but the result is that one more milestone has been reached! The fingerprint results will be sent to CIS, and they will begin reviewing our file in order to determine whether or not we are approved to adopt. Then we can start the Ukraine-side of the process.

Prayer Requests: Please be in prayer about these items, as well as continued prayers for our Little Guy:
  1. CIS/US approval
  2. Passports – that they would arrive soon
  3. SDA (Ukraine’s department of adoption) – they're going through lots of changes, so please pray that none of this will delay our process

Hope you all have a great weekend!

(And as always, we'd love to see your comments... hint hint)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

We pray for you guys daily that all will go smoothly and God will bring your beautiful little boy to you soon! We also pray for patience for you (even though Jenn said don't do that - God may give us something to be patient about!)---sounds impatient to us...ha...love you guys, enjoyed your last visit, and thanks for sending the 'sound guy' over to adjust our TV....bye!