Gotta it in the mail today!!!!

Day 65, we received our approval from the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services! After my meltdown last Friday, I am shocked, but very grateful! I got a wild hair to call the Department of Homeland Security - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Chicago last Friday to check on the status of our case. Just to find out that we, the Scheele's, could not be found in their files, not even with our account number. I checked online and again, our name or number was not on file. I even tried to call back again, thinking that I may get someone else that surely knew what they were doing. Nope, we were not in their system. I lost it! Fortunately I was home alone, Rob did not have to witness my emotional state. I quickly emailed our adoption agency. Within minutes, Diedra, our Dossier Consultant emailed us back. She was sure that we would not hear anything for 90 days or more and that is why they didn't have us in their system yet. She probably knew more than she could tell me. I did feel better after conversing with her. The Lord gave me peace and I was actually able to get a lot done that day.

There was, however, one mistake on our letter of approval. They had the Approval Valid Until date at March 27th, 2008. It should have read March 27th, 2010. I called and it was corrected and a new hard copy will be put in the mail on Monday. Again, I am very grateful and excited that we are another step closer to getting our Log-In-Date (LID).

Thank you to those who check in periodically on our progress. I know that I was being prayed for last Friday. Any other time, something like this would have ruined my whole day.