Steps Closer. . .

We heard early last week about a new plan to help move our case forward.  We are praying this new sequence of events will happen and it will be completed within a decent time frame.

It involves a few steps:

1.  Get a written letter of consent at the City office.  (This happened on Friday.)

2.  That letter will then be sent to the Zonal office to obtain a signature there.  (We just found out today that it did arrive at the office, but we are now waiting on the proper signature.)

3.  Once it is signed by the Zonal official, the letter of consent will be sent to the regional office and the Regional Head will supposedly sign the paper we have needed for 6 months. 

4.  When Regional Head signs, we can finally be submitted to court for our first court date.  This is one that we do not attend.  I don't know how far out court dates are being scheduled but I'm guessing it is somewhere between 2-5 weeks.  

5.  After this first court date happens, we will then be scheduling a court date to appear at court in Ethiopia.  Again, totally guessing, I think this would likely happen 2-5 weeks after the first court date is completed.  

Even though the requirements for this process have seemed quite fluid for us over the last year, we are feeling hopeful - we might be on the right path this time.  

Please join us in praying that the social worker who has our paperwork is able to get both the zonal signature and the regional signature ASAP.