Allen called Yanita this morning only to learn that she couldn't find the information that Jill sent via Fed Ex last week. Jill sent it last Wednesday and is quite sure that it must be there. When I talked with Jill today, she was optimistic that Yanita will approve our I-800A today or tomorrow (if she can find the paperwork!). Her concern however, is with the I-800 which is our next hurdle. If the I-800 takes as long as the I-800A, our timeline will be extended even longer. Our I-800 paperwork is ready to go, but it will probably require some tweaking as our I-800A did. Someone had suggested that we contact Norm Coleman's office to help to push this through. It seems as though his office has been most effective in helping adoptive families with these kinds of problems. We have already made calls to other elected officials, but maybe we'll give this a shot. Anyone out there have a personal connection with a high ranking government official???? Any other suggestions???
We are getting a bit desperate. Allen was talking about booking a flight to St. Louis at the National Benefits Center (where Yanita is) to hand deliver the documents, if it would help. I would call the President, if I thought he would answer his phone. :) We have considered asking to be reassigned to a new person at the National Benefit Center, but we also don't want to rock the boat and make things worse. Jill said today that we have to tread carefully because the NBC has all the power in granting approval for visas to adoptive families. By the way, they have approved only two I-800As and no I-800s to date. That is in the entire country!! So...we wait, we try to be patient and we try to be nice.
Please keep praying about this.
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