I'll Find A Way

We heard back from the embassy yesterday as the document they requested was submitted the day before.  Let me say it was not how I wanted to start my morning.  They have now requested an interview with his guardian.  I cried most of the morning as I believed this was the same person one of the social workers involved in our case looked for and could not find--after looking for over two weeks!  If this person cannot be found then it is highly likely the embassy will do a full investigation which could take two weeks up to two months or more!  Well, later in the day we received another e-mail which stated that our agency requested an interview appointment for this person for either Monday or Wednesday of this coming week.  Dare I assume that this means they do know who this person is and where to locate her to get her to this appointment?

Now we hope that her answers to their questions are what they want to hear.

This request is not a new one.  The embassy has been interviewing birth parents and guardians more and more frequently to determine that the child is a "true orphan".  Some of these interviews have been quite traumatic I am told.  How would you like to be a birth mother who has given up her child and you are questioned by the US government about every aspect of how the child came to be, why you can't support them, the state of your health, etc?  The hardest part of this is that WE know he is an orphan.  His mother has disappeared, his father is unknown, and he has been sitting in an orphanage for over a year now.  No one has come to reclaim him and the birth mother had three opportunities to appear in court and stop this.  What part of his situation does not fit the definition of an orphan?

So, sadly we wait some more not knowing what will happen or even having a timeline.  The embassy has decided to not schedule appointments from August 25-September 5 so if we do not clear on Monday chances are he will not be home until September.  Even if we do clear Monday or Wednesday we would be lucky to get an appointment before the 25th.  Once again, timing is not on our side.

I found these words on another adoptive parents blog that are from a song titled "Amos' Story" by Aaron Ivey.  I thought they were appropriate about now.

    "I'll find a way to get you here
     If it takes my fleeting breath
     Another sunrise hits the ground
     And it's a dark lonely sight
     Lightyears away I hope you know
     There is somebody searching
      For the way to get you here
      I will get you here."