We are out of PGN!

After 9 weeks and five days, we are happy to announce that we are out of PGN. Our agency is working on getting a new birth certificate from Coban, which is where Miranda was born. Our estimated travel date is the middle to late July!!!!!!!!!

Thank you God for answering our prayers!

Nine Weeks in PGN

I'm sad to say that we are still in PGN. Today marks our ninth week. I do have some good news to share. My friend Kristin begged, borrowed, and stole to get the direct # for PGN. She gave me her # for her international calling card and it had 19 minutes left on the card. So I called PGN and got through to a man that spoke a little bit of English, which is more Spanish that I can speak. We were having some communication difficulty but we finally got to the point where he was going to tell me the status of our file. Guess what? My card ran out of minutes!!!!!!!!! Ugh!
I was totally freaking out. I called everyone that I could think of to tell them what happened.

I called Eric (my brother-in-law) and left him a message. He has friends, Jose & Mariana, that speak Spanish. Eric arranged for me to go to their house after work so Mariana could call Guatemala for me. After two hours of delays, she was finally able to get through to PGN. She spoke with a nice lady named Laura. Laura informed Mariana that our file was sitting on the director's desk waiting to be signed; however, there was still a chance that the director could personally kick out our file. Laura said that the file should be signed next week and we could call back for new information at that time.

This is more information that we have had in nine weeks. We are getting so close! Once our file exits PGN approved, it goes to the US Embassy. The embassy will set an appointment for the exit interview.

Please continue to pray that the rest of our process goes smoothly.

Eight Weeks in PGN

Today marks another day in PGN, and another week in the dreaded black hole. We had contact with our case worker in Texas this week. She confirmed that we did enter PGN back in mid-April. She indicated that she should be getting case updates either later this week or early next week. We should also be getting our monthly medical update and picture update. How we live for some information from our agency! The pictures are all that we have to carry us through from one month to the next.

Our friends Kristin and Josh are happy to announce that they have exited the building-the PGN building that is. They are now waiting on their "PINK" slip from the US Embassy in Guatemala. The appointment date and time is actually issued on a pink slip of paper.

Here is a sample of a letter that I would like to send to PGN...

Dear Senor Barrios:

Please sign our file today!!!!! We want to bring Miranda home!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope that I do not have to give you another weekly update. I want to be able to post that we are O-U-T.

Seven Weeks in PGN

Anyone starting to see a trend in my posts? Unfortunately when you are in PGN you do not get a lot of information. You are either in PGN or out of PGN. I am happy to report that based on our latest update from our agency we are still in PGN. This makes seven weeks for us. As far as we know we have not had any kick outs.

Our friends, Kristin and Josh, found out this week that their case has been approved by the PGN director. They are waiting for the final decree to be issued. Hopefully they will find out their embassy date early next week. Princess Reagan is finally coming home!