Court Date!!!!!!!

We officially have a tentative court date - May 6th. It is fairly common for court dates to get postponed, due to the birthparents not showing up or issue in the court, itself. Send up a few prayer for us over the next few weeks. Once we pass court, a new birth certificate is issue in Ethiopia and sent to our agency (this takes about 1-2 weeks). Once the birth certificate is received they will assign a travel date, which is usually 6-10 weeks after receiving the new birth certificate.


Our next immediate steps include re-submitting our immigration paper work which will allow us to bring T-man back into the United States. We have to get re-fingerprinted and have the age range on our paperwork changed from 0-4years to 0-5years. Once our fingerprints get reviewed and our request for a new age range is submitted, they send over a new immigration form to Ethiopia. We just need all of this to happen before we get close to travel. I am going to think optimistically, but all this tends to be an extraordinarily slow process.