Some of you have expressed concern about how we are doing. First of all, I was asleep by 8pm and woke up at 6:30am feeling quite refreshed to go find some government offices! :)
Yes, we are disappointed that are girls are not home just yet but they WILL be home soon. It would be different if someone suddenly said that the girls were no longer available or something. We are going to get a document today in our town and then it will be driven by a driver (I find that a little amusing) to the town where the girls are (2 hours away). Our lawyer will meet the driver and the document there and run it in to the judge. The Judge will write on it and then the lawyer, the document and the driver will drive BACK to our town (2 hours) to get it signed by another government office. Then the lawyer will take a train back to the girl's town (another 2 hours) and give it back to the judge.
At this point, the judge may let us have provisional custody. I'm reserving getting excited about this one until I get a definite answer.
Either way on Thursday our lawyer will come 2 hours by train to our city and he and Josh will go to 4 government offices to get additional documents signed. The lawyer feels that this can easily be done in one day. Then those documents will go to the judge AND THEN WE'LL BE DONE!!!
(I hope!) :)
So, if we have provisional custody then we'll be granted full custody at that point. If the girls are still at the orphanage then they'll come home. Either way, they will get home SOON!
So, is your head spinning? Try getting all of this information in French and some Arabic!
Honestly it got quite frustrating yesterday because it kept being one more thing, one more thing, and on and on. Their way was to just have us go step by step. That's great if you aren't dealing with cities 2 hours apart!!! :)
It was a little funny to see the fear in the lawyer's eyes when Josh got a little (OK, a LOT) firm and said in French "What EXACTLY do we need to do to get these girls home?!" My French isn't great but I totally got what he was asking! It was then, and only then that the steps above were revealed to us. Josh has asked several times "So if we do those things we will get our girls home?" and we keep hearing "Yes!" So, I'm reserving my excitement but I think they'll be home quite soon.
On a positive note, this is all going in my booklet for Prospective Adoptive couples that will be on file at the embassy. Hopefully other couples won't have these "adventures." Again, the girls will come home. We just aren't 100% sure when. They are worth every bit of this! :)
--Rachel
3 years ago
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I was telling a friend of mine about your 'adventures', she said she had a cousin or some family member who was with the embassy in Morocco that adopted about 8 years ago. i hope if nothing else, that all of this craziness and documenting it, might help get the process a bit more smoothed out and might help out another family wanting to adopt. I'm sure it is difficult to feel like the guine pig, but hopefully it will help others.
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