Adoption Update

We are getting CLOSER! On Monday we received the following update forwarded from our case worker…this was the response we had been waiting for from the U.S. Embassy in Accra, Ghana regarding our request to have Kofi work on our behalf for the exit interview process:

Thank you for your email dated May 20, 2010. We wish to inform you that we have received your approved I-600 petition. Per your request, please have your designated representative/power of attorney (Kofi Oppong) come to the embassy to pick up a package that has the necessary instructions to proceed with your case. Your designated representative should bring a copy of this email on any Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. to be admitted to the Consular Section. He should also bring a picture identification and a power of attorney letter.

And then, this note was from our case worker:

Yippeeeeee! Praise the Lord on this wonderful sunshine-filled day! You are so close now. I think we might be on your same hopeful time line of the first week of June or shortly thereafter. All we need is Kofi to get the packet then make the appointment, if they won't allow him to make the appointment, we will do it from this end & he will attend in your behalf. I'll let you know as soon as Kofi has the packet in hand; the medical is complete-we only need the exit interview appointment now.

Did you catch that? Our travel could potentially be the first or second week of June! WOOT WOOT! If I have this right, I believe that once the exit interview is complete the visa is issued within 7 to 9 business days….so once we have the interview appointment scheduled we will then be able to book our travel dates. Glad things are rolling now! I started making my packing list for the trip, and I am finishing up a few last minute ‘nesting’ things around the house before Samuel’s arrival. A few weekends ago on our Minnesota tournament trip we picked up some outfits for Samuel at the Mall of America. You know how expectant mothers and grandmothers like to go shopping for clothes for the ‘new baby’? Well, a 5 year old is kind of not a new baby, but that doesn’t stop me from getting warm-fuzzies over these….

Every Sullivan has to have a pair of Jordan’s right? :)