We haven't heard much since we passed our court appt on Feb 5th. We are still waiting to confirm travel plans and to do that we must have a confirmed embassy date. This is what Cheryl had to say when I heard from her on Thursday.
So once again, we wait.....
Hi Lisa,
I did receive your e-mail and passed it on to Tigist the same day. I then didn't hear from her for 4 days and just now received some e-mails from her. She said the Internet connection in Ethiopia is struggling with all the people using it and it keeps going down.
She has the information about your travel plans. She wrote that the problem is there is no one to issue the government letters that must be used to first get a birth certificate, then get a passport and then a 2nd letter that is needed for the Embassy. The part of the Ethiopian government handling adoption cases is small - 3 1/2 people with one person very much in charge and their 2 full-time and 1 part-time helper and as you know, Ethiopia is being flooded with agencies across the US, Canada and Europe placing children from there. Christian World Adoptions hired the lead Ethiopian government person away to work with them about 2 months ago and no one has replaced this person. Tigist told me it took almost 3 weeks to get a letter for another family, for BC's and passports, and she still needs the letter for the Embassy. She has been working on getting the letter for your family and several others but does not have them as of today.
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