October 8 2004 - immigration approval!!

Today, I sent a fax over to immigration to politely check to see whether they had actually received and processed the papers that we dropped off last week. Just like last time, someone called right back, this time to Angel's cell phone. So Angel calls me right away to give me the news:

Angel: "You know how I've had this feeling that this whole adoption thing just isn't going to happen?"
Kevin: "Yes."
Angel: "I just got a call from immigration."
Kevin: "AND??"
Angel: "We're approved!"

God is good. So, based on the schedule that has been communicated to us from our adoption agency in Colorado, approximately two months from now, we should get our referral. That means we'll have 2-3 weeks from getting the referral to when we have to be in Kazakhstan. Do that math: that means we'll be leaving for Kazakhstan on or about Christmas. Ahh, Christmas in Kazakhstan.

Please pray that the person who gets assigned to our case in the Kazakhstan embassy in New York has a special motivation for processing our file quickly.