Going NUTS!!!

Our adoption agency is making us crazy! After asking them to check on why Claire's paperwork seemed to come to a halt in Korea they came back telling us that they were sure everything was fine. Dave and I suspected they hadn't actually checked with the agency in Korea about our paperwork. So, Dave and I went behind our agency's back and called the US Embassy in Seoul ourselves to check to see what the hold up was. At 2am US time Dave got a very nice lady on the phone at the Embassy that pulled Claire's file and let us know that they have had her paperwork since July 8th and they sent the final piece of paperwork needed for her visa to the Korean agency and the agency hadn't returned it. They were kind enough to call the agency to find out why they hadn't returned it in three weeks. Low and behold, the agency had lost the paperwork (or the mailman did???). So, our suspicions were correct that our US agency hadn't actually checked the status when we asked them to. It also turned out that they hadn't done Claire's visa physical yet (which we thought had already been done) so that was completed on Wednesday.

If your still with me reading, basically we are waiting to make sure that her physical was ok and that it didn't generate any additional paperwork for us to sign. If that is ok then we are just waiting for her visa to be issued.

This journey has turned out to be so much more stressful than we could have expected. It is really hard to sit back and have faith that the people you need to be competent at their job actually are. We have found on numerous occasions that things were not done when they should have been, and when we have told they were done. It feels like we have constantly had to follow up for the last two years to keep our paperwork going through the system. It is a good thing we only want two kids, because this has been so hard that Claire is it!