Abraham is coming home!!!!

9 months and 6 days of waiting and today the US embassy cleared our case so now we can fly to Ethiopia and have our visa appointment and bring him home.......FOREVER!!

We received the official e-mail from embassy at 7:04am EST. 

We are rejoicing greatly today and also bustling around packing as I honestly was not expecting to clear and I didn't want to pack so that my hopes wouldn't get too high....silly me!

Jeff and I fly out tomorrow and will be in Addis on Thursday evening, then Friday we will go get our boy!!!

If we can get online to update we will try!  For now, rejoice with us and stay tuned for pictures soon of his homecoming!!!

Tuesday Jan 24th embassy interviews Abraham's uncle!

So here it is Monday morning and I am on pins and needles knowing in less than 24 hours embassy will interview Abraham's uncle and within hours they could clear us.  Please pray for us! Tomorrow will be a day of rejoicing!

I hope to post good news tomorrow!!! Abraham, mommy can't wait to see you again!!!

What a blessing to have other families from AAI taking pics and videos our son!  This couple was with us when we had our court date back in July. They were such a blessing and we are so thankful for this video of our precious boy!

Heard from embassy

So this morning we received the e-mail from embassy requesting an interview with Abrahams uncle as well as needing a corrected translated police report. Our agency has requested that Jan 19th be the interview date, so here's hoping we do get that date and we get cleared quickly after the interview. We did hear that embassy is booked on dates so we're really hoping we don't end up in Feb for the interview!

Pray with us that Jan is the month Abraham comes home!!

Here's some recent pictures of him taken by another family who were with us for court, and they are now home with their baby boy. This was during the Ethiopian Christmas time, Jan 7th.

FINALLY SUBMITTED TO EMBASSY!!

Received this e-mail today!

"HI Donna -Jerry confirmed that your case was successfully intaken at the embassy on Tuesday. Thanks, susan

Yesterday i have submited Abreham Hebert Case successfully on Tuesday."

Here's praying for smooth sailing from here on out! It could be less than a month before Abraham is home!!!!

Made our annual Jib Jab Christmas card, now featuring Abraham with all the Kiddos!

Just when you think nothing else could go wrong.....

We thought for sure that Dec 14th was going to be such a good day, then we got hit with this e-mail:

"Abraham Hebert had a spelling difference in the passport. I am very sorry to have missed that.

JEFFREY was spelled JEFEREY in the passport. I argued this but the embassy would not accept it. Because changing the passport is near impossible and time consuming (immigration does not like to do that) we are sending the birth certificate to be changed and I will resubmit the file tomorrow morning.

Jeferey on the adoption contract and court decision are easy enough to correct as the Amharic is all the same."

So we thought ok......get the documents changed to reveal the misspelling and we should be good to go....right?  WRONG! This morning we received this sad e-mail:


"In the past we have had to change the birth certificate a few times because of mistakes in the passport that the immigration office has not wanted to correct. Because the embassy employee wrote on the form "correct the birth certificate" we made the decision to do that. However this morning the embassy c onfirmed that in this case it cannot be accepted as it is Jeffrey's name which must match his passport and I-600 form. If it was the child's first name then it can be changed throughout without question as it can be translated in different ways.

So this morning we took the old birth certificate back and Abraham has gone back to immigration to get the passport corrected."

According to our agency it is next to impossible to get immigration to issue a new passport and we are talking WEEKS if not MONTHS delays!

This is breaking our hearts..something so minor, an E that should have been an F??  
Our U.S. embassy couldn't just use white out? I mean come on embassy! A child's welfare is at stake here! He NEEDS his family! He does not need to be living in an orphanage, he has had a family since April!!

So here we sit, frustrated, sad, grieving immensely....pray for us..please.

To help pass the time I decided to make another video of him...this helps me smile. The video is on the side.