Praise God! Ana and Mina are officially van der Mark's! Laurens is relieved to now have all of the official adoption papers in hand and the girls passports. Yea! We are very excited that they are officially part of our family. We feel so blessed that from something so horrible (devastating earthquake), things were sped up for us in this process and we have our little girls.
We were so excited in fact that Laurens thought he would have no problem getting back to Canada on Tues. so we booked his flights. All he had to do was go to the Canadian embassy to get the travel Visa and he would be off. But wait!! It could not be that easy could it? It could not be like they said after the earthquake. "As soon as you get the following documents, bring them all in and we will issue you a travel visa right away". Of course not!
Upon arriving he was told that a little while ago they stopped doing travel visas to Canada for Haitian's from the Canadian Embassy in Port au Prince........due to the damage in the building, they had decided to move this service to.....Santo Domingo Dominican Republic (8 hours away). They forgot to tell us.
So here we are stuck again. They will only issue Laurens a citizenship Visa for the girls provided we have Part 1 of our citizenship approval in hand that comes from Nova Scotia. OK, this we have applied for. Good! This was supposed to be at our place in Canada before Friday. It was not! Bad! We called and were told that instead of the 8 weeks they stated on the letter, they are on a 27 week delay for citizenship part 1 approvals. We have 19 weeks to go! :(
We have put out e-mails to all our contacts and are praying that someone will know a way to get Citizenship and Immigration Canada to give the approval now instead of 19 weeks from now.....we are so close to reprieve yet so far.....God only knows why, but we know there is a reason. If you have any pull in this department or have any ideas, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Our desire is to have time to heal in Canada as a family before heading back to Haiti where we will continue the work God has for us there. If you are new to this blog, we encourage you to read through the last few blogs to see the work we have done pre earthquake, through the time of the devastating earthquake, and the aftermath up to now. You may get a tiny glimpse of why we feel we need some time off.
"Oh how great are God's riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!" Romans 11:33
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continuing to pray for your family!!
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