Passed Court!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are soooooo excited to announce that we passed court on Thursday! So T-man is legal our son and we are his new family! We also got T-man's immigration paperwork in the mail - so we are pretty much all set (in terms of paper work for travel). Most families are traveling between 4-6 weeks after court - so we could possibly travel between June 3rd and June 17th, but that is just my own best guess-timate.

We are just so tickled to get through court and are finding the thoughts of traveling and meeting t-man so exciting. Next, we will wait for T-man's new birth certificate to arrive via email to our adoption agency. Here are our next steps:

8. Case is approved; you are the legal parents of your child! (**you are here)
9. When the decision is granted, the written court order is drafted, a letter of support is requested from the MOWA (Ministry of Women's Affairs) office
10. Once the MOWA letter is received, the birth certificate is issued – this usually takes about two weeks
11. When the birth certificate is issued, we will receive a scanned copy of it and we will verify that the information is correct.
12. We advise Ethiopia staff that the birth certificate information is correct and they will proceed to obtain the child’s Ethiopian passport.
13. The Embassy medical exam will be scheduled for your child and the final paperwork will be submitted to the Embassy.
14. Once we receive verification that the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa has all of the documentation that they need for your case, we will advise your family of a travel date.

We will update everyone once we get T-man's new birth certificate in. Hopefully, we will find our about our tentative travel date soon :)

Thanks so much for your thoughts and prayers!

S, K, B and T