What's going on with our adoption?

Well, we are still waiting on the Ugandan government to work out the legal guardianship issue. The judges have to write the correct wording on the legal documents before the United States will grant visas again. Orphans are only granted legal guardianship in Uganda. An adoption cannot be granted until three years later. In order to get a visa to get out of Uganda and back to the United States with a child, the judge have to write the correct wording. The documents are required to say that the child will be adopted once they arrive in the United States. I have heard through the blog vine that the Ugandan courts should be having the "big meeting" soon to discuss this issue and hopefully resolve it.

I know of one family that was granted a full adoption and a visa to come home a couple of weeks ago, but many families are still in Uganda waiting on the judges to make a decision. As I read many of their blogs, they have such amazing faith that God is in control, but it is easy to let doubt enter their minds. They are missing their families and long to be home. Please pray that these families come home soon! Please pray that God would move mountains in Uganda to rescue these orphans.

Some families that are waiting in Uganda:
The Matts 
Old Fashioned Love
Sister Haiti


As for us, we are still waiting for our homestudy to be written up by our social worker. Hopefully, that will be sent off in the next couple of weeks. Then we have to wait 8-12 weeks to be approved to adopt internationally. Once we are approved by the USCIS (United States Central Immigration Services) we will then be waiting for our referral. A referral is when our agency, Generations, sends us a picture of a Ugandan child with a lot or a little information about the child. Then we can accept or deny the referral depending on what God is calling us to do. Considering what is going on in Uganda, getting our referral could take a while. Even if this get resolved in the next month, there will be a back up from all the people waiting to get a court date. After we get a referral, our attorney will contact us and give us a court date. The court date is usually six weeks after you get your referral, but who knows now that everything is "up in the air." Once we get our court date, we will make flight plans to travel to Uganda to go rescue our child!

To our sweet Ugandan baby: This is what your brother and sister have been doing while they wait for you. Henry has been obsessed with Pirates, sweet ones of course! Mary Taylor has been learning that she is not the center of the universe!

 "Aye-aye matey! If you don't talk like a pirate, walk the plank!!"

"If it is not my idea, don't even try to get me to do it!"

Please continue to pray that we would trust God in his timing! Believe me, it is hard to sit here, knowing we might have a child in Uganda right now, waiting on us!