Paper Mistake Update!

Remember when our home study papers were mailed through to the next level in the paper trail process with mistakes in it?? Some of the story is here. After flipping out ( just a bit of panic), the revisions were made by our home study agency, but all too late. The revised papers had to be mailed behind the wrong papers that had already been mailed out to the government offices.

The wrong papers were headed to the US Department of Homeland Security and would continue on for our requests of bringing in non-US children to the country. Kinda a big deal, right? This mistake would have shown up during the time we were in Ethiopia and at the US Embassy requesting the visas for our children (oh my word! Not a time to find an error in the paper work!)

We had to wait until x number of days until we could make the final confirmation that the papers were actually revised and that at all the stops along the way (I think 3 or 4 offices).

Well, today I called the National Visa Center and confirmed that the mistaken address information was now correct!! AND that our visa request has been sent and uploaded to the US Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on June 24th!! That's the final resting place for those papers and they will sit there and wait for us to request our children's visas!

Now, all we need are those kids! Praying, waiting, praying!!

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