No news, no facts, no idea what is going on, either in Ethiopia with the system as a whole, or with our case specifically. A little frustrating, to be sure!
Last Wednesday, several other prospective adoptive parents with various agencies began reporting that their agencies were saying lots of positive things about the whole letter writing decrease. Three different agencies all said essentially the same thing, which is that the government had fired the entire staff at MOWA (those who had decided to implement the 5 letter rule), the new staff is committed to eliminating a backlog of 800+ cases over the next few weeks (this seems difficult, but obviously we want it to be true!), and they aren't going to be tied down to a certain number of letters per day, but rather, would try to work as thoroughly and efficiently as possible. This all sounds great, but at this point it's still been just a handful of agencies (and ours is not one of them) reporting this, and there's been no official word from the US Dept. of State or the Ethiopian government. So we wait, but feel more encouraged and hopeful than we have over the past few weeks.
As far as our case goes, we are getting a little down. We were referred almost 6 weeks ago, and were told that our daughter needed to be in the orphanage a while longer before we could be submitted for court, but that it would give everyone time to get our paperwork gathered and ready. Great! However, the date we were eligible came and went, and we still have no idea if we are anywhere close to being submitted for court. I know there are lots of different papers that must be acquired and translated, and some of them involve travel across the country. And of course our case is not the only one they are working on! Once we are submitted, it will probably take a month, maybe longer, before we find out when we go. We naively hoped it would be May, but are now thinking it will be more like June. This is disappointing, but there's not much we can do about it. We would wait forever if we had to, we're just hoping the wait is quite a bit shorter than that!! We are also hoping and praying that we get an update on her soon...we are anxious beyond words to see her beautiful face again and learn anything we can about her development and personality.
So that's what's going on here...not a whole lot! We know that everything will work out, we're just excited to meet her and can't wait to travel!
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