Thursday, March 8, 2012
Home Sweet Home
We are thankful to be home! I will leave on Monday morning to return to the Ukraine but for now, I am LOVING being here! Please continue to pray for us.
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Birthed into our hearts 3/2/2012
Follow us as we bring our son home through adoption from Eastern Europe. Walking by faith in our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Dmitriy Ezekiel Risse
Birthed into our hearts 3/2/2012
The Risse Family
We are a Christian couple, who followed the Lord to Eastern Europe, to bring home our son through adoption. The Lord has been so kind in blessing us with 7 children. We have 5 here to enjoy on this earth (ages 8, 6, 5, 4, and 3 ) and two with the Lord. To God be all the glory.
Our Adoption Timeline
- Week of April 11 - Found this child. Started praying and seeking the Lord over him and the Lord's will for us.
- Week of April 18 - Lots of praying and lots of research.
- April 21 - Mike and I in agreement that the Lord is directing our steps towards adoption.
- April 25- Commit to the Lord to bring this child home, our son, if He wills.
- Week of May 2 - Still researching social workers/agencies for home study. Need to start the home study process this week, in hopes to get somethings completed before our GA trip.
- May 3 - Contact many social workers...we only have 3 options, they are all agencies....we shall see.
- May 11 - one full month has passed since we found this child. We have chosen a social worker and are praying for direction as we choose our in country facilitator.
- May 16 - YAY! we have our facilitator!
- May 19 - filing for passports today :)
- 5 -24 Mike and I State and FBI fingerprints
- May 16 - working on paperwork for our social worker/home study. Need to get passports this week and need to make a commitment to an in country facilitator.
- 5 - 25 Kids physicals and pictures
- 5 - 26 Mike and I physicals
- 5 - 26 turned in all home study documents, now wait for home visit!
- June 19 - home from GA...passports and immigration papers arrive....just found out July 11th our countires adoptions will stop for some time in order to change authority.
- June 27 - POA forms and money sent to our country
- USCIS immigration forms sent and Homestudy visit on July 7th!
- July 11 - Working hard on Dossier
- Aug 17 - Still delayed in waiting on FBI clearance.
- Aug 23 - GOT FBI CLEARANCE!! Finalized homestudy!
- Aug. 28 - Waiting on immigrations approval
- Sept. 15 Biometrics appt. for immigrations.
- Sept 22 - Mail homestudy addendum to USCIS
- Sept. 23 - Go to Pierre for Apostilles!
- Oct 11 - got pink slip from Immigrations and overnighted their requested info to them.
- 10 - 25 Praise the Lord! Got Immigrations Approval in the mail !
- 10-26 Mike drives to Pierre for the last 2 Apostilles and GOODBYE Dossier, we mail it off to Ukrain* today!!!! Praising the Lord.
- Nov 6 - Dossier still not arrived to our facilitator...waiting and praying
- 11 - 7 Our Dossier arrives into safe hands..praying for 11/10 submission date
- 11-30 WE ARE SUBMITTED!
- Jan. 18...got appt. date...YAY
- Feb. 8..SDA appt. date
- 2/10 meet him for the first time
- 3/2 court, he is ours!
- March 16, 2012 Gotcha Day!
- March 25 American Citizen !
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2 comments:
So thankful to know you are home safe and sound. Enjoy those precious children of yours - I sure miss them!! We will continue to pray for you and little D. LOVE YOU ALL!
yay!!!
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