File Signed...

we will not know if we are approved or another previo until tomorrow or they may make us wait through another weekend. This time the delay is that the secretaries were being trained today on a new system that will make the process faster. Can we get any "luckier"?
We are so frustrated with waiting!

Teasers But No OUT Yet

We have given up on getting information from our adoption agency. Now we are calling our facilitator in Guatemala. She is the one that has custody of the girls; is in direct contact with PGN daily, visits the girls, schedules doctors appointments, arranges our visits and oversees all aspects of their well-being.
After talking with her last week we were expecting last Tuesday that the girls file would be signed by the head of PGN. She had 200+ files to go through unrelated to adoptions and 56 adoption files of which the girls file was number 11. She was unable to get from a meeting at the Presidents house back to PGN due to masses of Guatemalans protesting in the city about poverty causing a gridlock. Wednesday she was expected to get through the 56 files, but only signed 25. We are hoping we are one of the 25 files signed. Today we will be calling to learn whether our file was signed, but we will have to wait until Friday or next week to learn whether the file was signed with an approval or a previo. Once the head of PGN signs the file, it then goes through several hands down to the "pick up window" where a person must enter information into the computer before it can be picked up. Only in Guatemala!

New Pictures--Old News

Still with 2nd Reviewer. We have no idea why PGN will not release our file. Our only option is to wait--wait on PGN, wait on facilitator, wait on adoption agency. We are really tired of waiting and are concerned that the girls are getting older and will have more and more difficulty with the transition as they mature.

We love getting the pictures, but hate seeing them growing up away from home.

Waiting...Past Angry

The "wait a week" has come and gone. It has been 17 days since we were told "wait a week." There is no specific reason for PGN to be holding the girls file. We just wait.

KO'd Again

Kicked out of PGN again on Friday, July 11. This time a seal on one of the girls paperwork was not as clear as the others. We were put back in Monday, July 14. This time the facilitator met with the reviewers and they said that they do not see any other previos. They were told that all twins were being given extra scrutiny. The facilitator also got our files moved to a different reviewer. The facilitator was told "give us a week". We are not quite sure what giving them a week will mean. Check in next week to see.

Waiting...Getting Angry

Evidently PGN decided to let us sit for weeks--no quick review and out for us. We were told Wednesday, July 9 that "the file is down". What that means is that the file is at the window in a pile to be released. Released does not necessarily mean "accepted"; it could mean another previo. The file can not be released either way until the information is put into the computer and we do not know how long it will take to get to our file. We had hoped three days would have been enough time and then we would have learned our fate today. It is now 7:30 in the evening on a Friday so we will not learn anything until Monday or later. Frustrating to say the least!

Back In PGN

Evidently the "incentive" did not move things along any quicker as it still took over a week to get the Mayors signature. The good news is that the Agency says we (the girls files) are back into PGN as of Wednesday, July 2. Optimistically we could hear an approval before the week is out. Or they could let the file sit for weeks. We wait and the girls just get older--14 months July 11.