Documents Approved!

These were some VERY welcome words from Michael, our Case Manager from Christian World Adoption this morning (Friday, April 3rd):

Hello, Brian and Danna,

Things have settled down a bit here, and I got a chance to review and recombine your documents. I will send you the final Obligation document today, and send it by quick UPS so that you can get started ASAP. Thank you for sending the missing documents; I have copied all those and inserted them in your dossier copies, which I will hand off for processing now.

Have you arranged with a courier service for the Washington segment?

That means that (perhaps) by Monday, we could have the final piece of our dossier from CWA so that we could overnight it on Monday to the Assistant Stork in Washington for her to carry to the State Department and to the Embassy of Ethiopia!

Oh yeah, I learned today from Laura (the Assistant Stork) that no matter what class of FedEx service you select, it all makes it to her at 11am. Here’s how she said it:

First Overnight get delivered around 11AM. Priority Overnight gets delivered around 11AM. Standard Overnight gets here around 11AM. So don't waste your money.

Interesting...I think we’ll be selecting “Standard Overnight”, huh?