Finally!! In GOD's timing our marriage certificate (the scanned copy) was legalized by the Chilean consulate and arrived here on Friday, October 15. Tomorrow the 18th I'll take the legalized copy to have that legalization legalized here in Chile and then take the papers to the adoption agency.
From there the agency will petition a court date to present our family for "fostering" or personal care. They will petition the court for various fostering rights. 1. Would be to visit the children and get to know them in their orphanage. 2. Would be to be able to take the children out for the day. 3. Would be to be able to bring them here into our home to live. The judge will have 7 working days to decide his answer and then get back to the agency. In the mean time, we'll get to see pictures, hear the children's story, and share more information with you. The judge's response could be any one of the 3 answers or he could say that he'd like to meet us before he puts kids in our home. THIS could take another month.
IN OTHER WORDS... we could have the children within the next 2 weeks if the court date is arranged fast and the judge likes our profile OR it could be another 6 to 8 weeks.
Everything the adoption agency tells us is that they expect us to have the children pretty quickly, so we're operating under the impression that we could be a family of 6 within the next 2 weeks.
PLEASE PRAY for GOD's timing, our patience, the children's transition and attachment to us.
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