God answered our prayers last night!
We spoke to Irina when we got home last night and she cleared up a couple of things for us.
First of all, it appears that Slava actually wrote to Zina (as in sent a letter) and told her to be sure to tell us that he wants to come home to us. I'm not sure how long it is, or what other information it contains, but the original will go to Sophia (our Russian agency contact) to go into our file for court. Zina will fax a copy to Irina, who will then get a copy to us. Another child who came over this summer also sent a letter to Zina for his parents stating the same thing. I have no idea how they were able to mail a letter to Zina, but I'm sure the story will come out once he gets home.
We talked about the revised petition to waive the first trip. There is a phrase they wanted removed from the letter and to get the new copy to our agency's office here US so they could forward it to the agency office in Russian/Tyumen. All during dinner we were trying to be creative with options for getting this latest document apostilled and the cons of each: to send it by mail (a minimum of 2 weeks turn around time), to send it by courier (expensive), to ask for a half day off (a hassle), to go into work at 6AM and leave at 3PM working through lunch (still no garauntee it would be okay with the parents). So what do you think. God came through. Irina told us that if we would drop it off at the FHills office, they would notarize our signatures and take care of getting it apostilled. It should be take care of and on its way to Russia by the middle of next week. Delay is minimal, no additional cost for us, no hassles getting time off from work.
Wow. Just one wow after another.
Thanks for your continued prayers. I hope you can see they really are making a HUGE difference in every aspect of this adoption.
Be blessed~
Julie
We spoke to Irina when we got home last night and she cleared up a couple of things for us.
First of all, it appears that Slava actually wrote to Zina (as in sent a letter) and told her to be sure to tell us that he wants to come home to us. I'm not sure how long it is, or what other information it contains, but the original will go to Sophia (our Russian agency contact) to go into our file for court. Zina will fax a copy to Irina, who will then get a copy to us. Another child who came over this summer also sent a letter to Zina for his parents stating the same thing. I have no idea how they were able to mail a letter to Zina, but I'm sure the story will come out once he gets home.
We talked about the revised petition to waive the first trip. There is a phrase they wanted removed from the letter and to get the new copy to our agency's office here US so they could forward it to the agency office in Russian/Tyumen. All during dinner we were trying to be creative with options for getting this latest document apostilled and the cons of each: to send it by mail (a minimum of 2 weeks turn around time), to send it by courier (expensive), to ask for a half day off (a hassle), to go into work at 6AM and leave at 3PM working through lunch (still no garauntee it would be okay with the parents). So what do you think. God came through. Irina told us that if we would drop it off at the FHills office, they would notarize our signatures and take care of getting it apostilled. It should be take care of and on its way to Russia by the middle of next week. Delay is minimal, no additional cost for us, no hassles getting time off from work.
Wow. Just one wow after another.
Thanks for your continued prayers. I hope you can see they really are making a HUGE difference in every aspect of this adoption.
Be blessed~
Julie
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