Finally Some Progress

On Tuesday afternoon we finally received the call that we had been waiting on for the last nine weeks. Our adoption caseworker emailed us to let us know that our attorney in Guatemala had received the final social worker report. It has been a long nine weeks waiting on this report. Typically this report is completed in one week. Hopefully we won't have any more problems with the guardianship information in our homestudy.

According to our caseworker our dossier should be submitted to PGN by the end of the week. During this process a reviewer goes through your file with a fine tooth comb. They can "kick" (called a previo) you out for a ton of different things: missing documents, expired documents, misspellings, not using the correct color ink, not including every variation of your name on the name affidavit, etc. Most of the kick outs are for ridiculous things, but it adds more time to your case. If your file is kicked out it typically takes about 6 weeks to be reviewed again after your resubmit.

After the reviewer signs off on the file it goes to the Director of PGN-Senor Barrios. He also goes through the file with a fine tooth comb and he either signs off on your file or rejects your file. The only problem with this process is that there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason why he reviews particular files. He doesn't review them in date order so some people have waited six months for him to review their file. On the other hand, some people only wait four weeks.

We are crossing our fingers that our dossier goes through this process smoothly. We will take any and all prayers! We want to bring her home soon!