Well, in our quest for answers yesterday we contacted Grace Children's Foundation, since they are Zach's legal gaurdians while he is in the USA. Our adoption agency indicated that he may have to return to his orphanage for a day or two for GCF to return him and then the orphanage would return him to us for Gotcha Day, but said to contact Grace, as they should know. Our worst fear is that we will have to be seperated from Zach for even a day before we adopt him, since we just don't know what that will do to him. And on the likely hood that the trip does not happen before June 10, when his visa expires, I wanted to find out what we need to do to extend his visa again. Well, GCF doesn't seem to think they have to do anything, that we can just bring him back with us and then we sign the gaurdianship papers on Gotcha Day. That's good news. However, there is some bad news. They don't think that they have a reason to extend his visa again without a detailed doctor's letter. And I don't think the doctor has any reason to keep him here. That means that GCF may end up flying him home in June, since I am not sure that there is any way to be ready to travel before June 10. Documents must go to 2 different agencies in China, and 2 in the USA and an appointment made at the US Consulate in China. Keep Zach in your prayers- pray for swift government, and barring that, strength for Zach so he will have the faith to believe that we really will come get him. We are also hoping to hear very soon from some more of the agencies that offer adoption grants. I have one more craft show, scheduled in May to put some more money in the adoption kitty. Tonight we go over our finances to see exactly how far we are from the total we need.
This adoption is certainly full of highs and lows.
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