Paperwork Hurdles

Some good news today on the topic of our struggles with paperwork. As I wrote before, we need an addendum written to our homestudy, upping the number of children we are approved for. However, our social worker is out of town until August 5th. This morning when we awoke, we had an email from the agency director, Kimberly, indicating she would, in this circumstance, write the addendum herself.
The change will cost us quite dearly price-wise, but at this point, we don’t really have much of a choice. We are thankful that it appears we will be able to overcome this first (and rather major) hurdle.
So, thank you for praying. Please continue to pray that Kimberly will be able to quickly complete the various steps necessary to prepare this addendum (notary, apostille, BCIS approval, fedex mailing….). We are sincerely hoping the Embassy in Kiev will receive our new BCIS approval Tuesday morning (Kiev time), and the NAC will accept it as enough for us to visit the children. Kostya is concerned they may want the notarized, apostilled, translated copy of the addendum in-hand, but will try his best to have them accept just the new BCIS form. It appears at this point, the Embassy will also try to help us with the NAC as well!