Slow News Day...

You know it's slow when you are posting that a fed-ex package you sent arrived safe and sound in Guatemala.

One interesting thing is that we found out the email address for PGN and I inquired about our file. They sent me (in English) a return email concerning our case and a pdf of the computer screen so I could look at all the activity recorded on our file since the original submission. Is that cool or what?

Planning Ahead

We recently discovered that RENAP is requiring notarized copies of Prospective Adoptive Parent's passports before issuing the birth certificates. It's an ever changing world.

One of our little girl's bc definitely goes through RENAP since she is from Coban. The other baby girl's bc is from Mixco which will begin being a part of RENAP in September. As a time saver, we are sending copies ahead of time. Hopefully, this will cut some of the time off receiving their bc's. RENAP has been particularly slow recently sometimes taking 7 weeks to issue.

These are truly lessons in patience that we are learning. I cannot say it's been easy, but it has been fruitful spiritually.

No news yet from PGN...but hey, it's only been 4 days since resubmission. :)

This From Our Facilitator Today...

The file is done and has been collated (anytime anything is added to the file it has to be unbound and a new index page made that lists the page numbers and what is on that page then rebound) and translated with all of the previa addressed: it is ready to be presented and will go in on Monday. Tomorrow is a holiday in Guatemala, Feast of the Assumption.

The US Embassy also takes the Guatemalan holidays along with the U.S. holidays, so no movement in files tomorrow.

As Promised...

Our file was picked up from PGN this morning and contained a previo. They will get the necessary document from the embassy and resubmit next week. Our facilitator indicated that this should be the last of the previos since they had to search to find this one. We will see. Any how, glad to be out and I can honestly say looking forward to returning for hopefully a shorter stay :)