Another Amazing Miracle!!

My friends...God has worked another miracle of amazing timing in this end of our adoption process and we are soooooo excited!!  For those of you that haven't heard, our file was submitted to USCIS for the Visa process last Wednesday, October 23rd.  As I'd mentioned in my last post, several other families had just received their approval last week after 3 weeks and we were hoping for that amount of time or less to receive word of our 1600 approval.

This afternoon, I opened my email to find this amazing and joy-inducing news...

"Dear Mr. and Mrs. Saski,

USCIS in Port au Prince, Haiti is pleased to inform you that the I-600 petitions, which you filed at this office on May 22, 2013 on behalf of Naika Charles and Chelley Charles, seeking to qualify them as your immediate relatives have been approved. Your case has been transferred to the Adoption Unit of the Consular Section for the visa process. This completes all action by USCIS on the referenced petitions. The Consular Section will soon contact you to follow-up on your case."

5 DAYS, PEOPLE!!! 5 DAYS!!! That is how long it took us to receive this approval!!  Once again, God has blessed us with a miracle and we couldn't be more excited or grateful.  It's really starting to feel REAL.  We REALLY will be going to get our girls very soon!!!

Now, we are waiting to hear when our Visa appointment will be scheduled that the girls will attend with a representative from our orphanage.  We hope to hear that information in the next few days and we assume that the appointment will be scheduled out about 7-10 days.  Our appt could be as early as November 6th or 7th, which means that it is theoretically possible that we could be headed to Haiti as early as November 14th.  If not that week, then probably the following week.  We'll know a lot more by the end of this week.  

There are MANY families all at this point that are all chomping at the bit to go and get our kiddos!  GLA is going to have to be creative to get us all down there as soon as possible and fit us all in the guest house and in their vans!  So, we'll try to wait patiently for our turn and will trust that God has the very smallest details of this end of our journey in His hands.  It would appear that He is still working to answer the cry of our hearts to be with Naika on her birthday...most likely HERE, ALL TOGETHER AS A FAMILY!!  Wow!!

Praising God for all that HE HAS DONE and IS DOING in fulfilling this call of our family to adopt these unbelievably precious little girls.

We'll keep you posted as we know more details about these next few weeks...