PRAYERS PLEASE...

It is difficult for me to write down what's going on now because everytime I stop to think about the gravity of it, my stomach churns.  Here goes...

We overnighted our I-800 on Aug 15th meaning we should have received our preapproval from Immigration right about now to send off to China...big detour...

Our agency mistakenly told us that we could send our I-800 directly to MO for processing.  WRONG!  Not only did they send it back 10 days later with a big fat REJECTED letter attached.  They also required us to send it back to Texas where it would sit and wait for 7-14 days to get sent to...wait for it...MO!  SO, we sent overnight again on Tues, Aug 23rd.

Chris and I were baffled by this setback and, after discussing with our agency case manager, decided to make an appeal to the Immigration officer handling our case.  Perhaps if she understood that Quinn is receiving no physical therapy and that our agency, not us, made the mailing mistake, she'd be sympathetic and speed us up once she received our ppwk. WRONG AGAIN!

The officer said there was  nothing she could do to speed things up and that after hearing about Quinn's disability, it sounded more permanent than minor/correctable, which is all we were elgibile for according to our I-800A (the initial Immigration application.)  Therefore, in order to adopt Quinn, we'd need a Supplement 3-essentially a lot more $ and an amended homestudy which take s alot of time to process.  I broke down sobbing on the phone with this stranger.  I know she's just doing her job, but I just didn't get it.  I STILL don't get it.  How can this be happening.  We're SO close!

After lots of prayer and talking it over with Chris and our agency, we felt strongly that Quinn's disability IS minor and correctable so we've decided NOT to file the additional ppwk.  We're taking a risk.  The officer could reject us again and we will have lost valuable time.  However, there is a chance that after seeing our ppwk, she will approve us and we will have saved ourselves the time, effort,and $ necessary to send the Supplement 3.

We-Chris, myself, and most importantly Quinn- are in need of immediate prayer.  If you are reading this, will you please stop right now and say a quick prayer for this officer to approve our ppwk.  We've already lost 2 weeks by sending the ppwk to MO.  We cannot fathom losing anymore time.
Thank you!