I think we spoke with our agency almost everyday this past week (including Saturday). We finally found out on Tuesday what the hold up was with getting a court date (Kellie if you are reading this skip to the next paragraph-for your own sanity later on). Apparently, after we signed the papers before we left Tomsk saying we "officially" wanted to adopt our little guy the court has to send letters out to all of his known relatives. These letters let them know that someone is wanting to adopt him and these relatives have to sign a form and send it back in saying that they still don't want him. The court received all of these letters back and signed the previous week! I am SO glad that we didn't know about this before because I would have worried myself to death!
Our coordinator had an appointment on Thursday to petition the court for a court date for us, but for the first time that our agency has ever heard of, court was cancelled because it was so cold! It was -45 F ! They were hoping he would be able to go on Friday, but it was still too cold (-32 F) so court was cancelled again. On Saturday we were told that our coordinator felt sure that he would be able to get to court the first part of this week and we should have a court date for sometime this month. After he petitions the court it normally takes about a week for the judge to assign a date. Hopefully we will hear something soon. Be praying for warmer weather in Siberia. I don't know how those people live in that kind of weather! It's definitely going to be a big shock to us since it was almost 60 degrees here today!
Sunday, February 1, 2009
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Oh my gosh, how frustrating! I had heard that some judges would contact all known relatives, but did not really think it happened. We will be praying for warmer weather for sure! we are still waiting and hoping for our referral. Keeping you in our prayers!
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