Archive | June, 2008

What a Week!

Thanks so much to all of you for your prayers this week as we’ve worked with USCIS in Detroit and our congressional office. After constant (read: hours of) correspondence with the folks in Detroit, we’ve finally progressed! We were informed that, lo and behold, all the paperwork they have needed from us has been sitting […]

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Working with our congressman

Well, the I600 we mentioned in a previous post has still not been processed and the issue is still not resolved. After a month of trying to get information out of USCIS (immigration) in Detroit and receiving only vague anemic responses, our caseworker has finally recommended that we go to our congressman as a last […]

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Fundraising Update

We mentioned the cleft bottle campaign, and it generated another opportunity, so golfers, check this out! A very generous friend who is a PGA golf instructor has kindly offered to host a golf-a-thon during which he’ll give one-hour golf lessons for ten hours and 2/3 of the proceeds generated will go toward our adoption! Details:Times […]

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Jude’s Passport Approval!

Yesterday we got word from our case worker that Jude’s passport has been approved and sent for printing! This is great news.Now we await our own USCIS (immigration) approval of Jude’s I600. Please pray about this. This is what we need in order for the US Consulate in Haiti to do what they need to […]

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Fundraiser

All – we’ve decided to do a little fundraiser to continue to raise money to pay for Jude’s adoption. We are going to order a dozen cleft palate bottles, which are not available in developing countries and are desperately needed to save the lives of cleft-affected babies. We’d like to place those bottles and have […]

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