Who ever thought I would say that there has been many thing happening? With so much of the last couple of years spent waiting for... anything, it feels like we are actually adopting.
Between our visit in July and October, Leika legally became a Williams. According to Haiti, she is ours! When another family was at the orphanage for their visit, they said Leika told them proudly, "I am a Williams".
In October, on the second attempt since our visit, Leika's grandmother was found and escorted to a meeting at the U.S. embassy to insure she is legally adoptable, an orphan, and not being sold (and whatever else they determine speaking with both grandma and Leika).
Last week, October 28th, we got an email which said Leika had entered MOI. This means that she is getting her Haitian passport. This has been taking less then a month recently when earlier this year families were waiting up to three months. This is the home stretch! Once her passport is issued, then the U.S. will issue her a visa, then we bring her home. The visas have been taking about four weeks. So three weeks plus four weeks equals seven weeks. That is an optimistic time frame to get news to travel, but we can hope.
We are at the final push hoping that these last steps go smoothly without bumps and hurtles like so much our journey has encountered.
0 comments: