Getting Closer…

As many of you know, we submitted our paperwork (our dossier) to Micah and Aubrey’s country at the end of May. Our dossier needed to be translated and then authenticated. After that it would be sent off to be reviewed by the Vice Minister at a meeting in which we would receive a verbal referral for our children. The problem was that there was not VM in place at that time and over the last two months none has been assigned. So, we waited, and waited, and waited some more. Then, last week we heard that the meeting would be held regardless of not having a VM to run it. Our hopes were up that we would get the verbal referral that we were waiting for. The meeting took place on Tuesday and we waited all day for news (despite the fact that we were told that we wouldn’t hear until Wednesday), because it’s just too hard not to check our emails a million times in hope! Wednesday we got word that our dossier had been approved, and we had our verbal referral for Aubrey and Micah! We are so excited!

From here we will wait for another official to sign off on our dossier (called the written referral). We have been told that this typically happens within three weeks of the verbal referral, but the timeline is variable because of all that is happening politically over there. Once we have the signature we will be invited over to meet our children for the first time. So, we are getting closer and closer all the time to meeting our son and daughter for the first time!