My How Quickly Things Can Change....

This post shows you how fast International Adoption can change. Yesterday I received a very distraught phone message from our CM telling us that the Vietnam Government has decided to shut down inter-country adoptions to the US. This was rumored but yesterday as confirmed. The DIA has stated that they "intend" to finalize all in process adoptions who have a referral by July 1st. Sounds like no problem for us right.....WRONG!!!! First of all we are still waiting to receive in our mailbox the "Official Match Letter" and without that we legally do not have a referral yet. That's the first problem. Not a huge problem since we are sure we will have it within the next 10-14 days. Our next dark fear comes once the I600 is submitted to the USCIS. The USCIS is approaching every adoption as if it were a fraud and they are scrutinizing each case. We are praying that Derek (and the other 7 families with us) will have nice clean, clear, cut and dry dossiers and that there will be no little loose ends for the USCIS to nit pick about. As long as the dossiers slide through USCIS without incident we should be (well Derek should be) home free. The second problem is that as I mentioned above the DIA "intends" to finalize all adoptions in process but that statement has not yet been confirmed by our agency so it is a little scary as we hang on the hope and prayer that this will all transition much smoother than the past 21 months have. Roadbumps.....we have seen all we care to see now God!!! I have laid this adoption in God's hands about a month or so ago as I have lost all of my strength to fight the battle alone and in that time we have seen great positive thingss happen so we are going to continue to pray that He will continue good works for all of us.
We are asking that if you haven't prayed for us lately please do so and if you would please pass on a prayer request for us to one more person that you may not have told about us before. Prayer will get us there and back with Derek in our arms!!! I will remain strong in faith that God is going to work through this for all of us. Please be strong with us!!!!