Re-Fingerprinted

Today we had to return to the Immigration Office in Detroit to be re-fingerprinted. Our current prints are due to expire on May 10th and the way things are going we won't be able to travel with our group if we didn't have our prints updated due to the chance that they could expire while we are out of the country. We had sent a letter last month per advise from AAI to Immigration and just received an appointment notice on Saturday in the mail. Unfortunately, the appt. wasn't until March 29th. Our agency said that would be too late and that we should just show up at the Immigration Office today and beg them to re-print us without an appointment. We expected them to reject our request and had a few phone #'s on hand in case we had resort to going over their heads. Mark has an FBI contact and he is friend's with the head of the Immigration office in Detroit. He was very helpful yesterday and was going to go to bat for us if we needed to. We were really stressing about going this morning. God was with us today when we walked in and they said that they would try to fit us in due to the adoption pending and the urgency. We were the only English speaking couple in there. We laughed because they had the Spiderman movie on in the waiting area but the volume was turned down. Evidently no one could understand what they were saying anyways. So we watched the whole movie with no sound! Finally, our numbers were called and they were able to squeeze us in after and hour and a half. We were willing to wait the whole day if we had to. Bless their hearts for being so helpful and understanding. I pray that this is our last snag in our paperwork for a while! Everyone has been so supportive to us and we sure appreciate everyone's enthusiasm, it really makes the waiting more bearable! The other day our friend said that God is just making her perfect for us that is why we are waiting so long. I thought that was so sweet of him to say. It is the truth. At the end of the week the weather is supposed to be getting warmer, I really think that putting these long winter months behind us will help the time pass faster, the sunshine is so encouraging, and gives us hope that spring is coming soon!