Our papers have passed Embassy and now our agency has requested our embassy appointment for the week of Feb 21 which would mean we would have to fly out Feb 16…in 6 days.
We are ecstatic to be in this situation and thankful that the waiting to be done. But 6 days…we had some things to decide . . kids activities, childcare, the expense of short-notice tickets and to pack in 6 days. Our agency told us we also could request an embassy appointment for the following week…..
Although we both wanted to go next week to bring Kianna home, we chose to go with requesting a later embassy appointment. We went ahead and put in our request to our agency. They told us that they would receive confirmation for our request probably by Friday but for sure by Monday.
We wanted to buy our airline tickets since timeframe was a little further out, making the tickets a little more reasonable in price. But we needed to just hold them since we needed to wait for confirmation. Our agency informed us that they didn’t see a problem in us getting the later embassy appointment but with all the changes going on we were not at peace.
Friday came and no confirmation. We eagerly awaited Monday morning. By midmorning we hadn’t heard anything yet, so we call to find out that their liaison person in Ethiopia was not working and for whatever other reason had not received confirmation…..we wait some more.(and cancel our airline tickets).
Tuesday morning comes…thinking today is the day. We tried to be patient but by 10:30 I was e-mailing our agency….to find out that the US Embassy is closed today – yes closed due to an Ethiopian holiday. So no confirmation was heard still.
Finally! Wednesday morning we received confirmation from Holt!….yes - in 6 days we leave to bring our little girl to her new home!
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