In one small piece of paperwork that we are waiting on to complete our dossier for Ethiopia, there's a snag.
It's in the mail now, and we want to ask you to pray that it gets processed correctly.
A few weeks ago, we sent our offically done (and officially sealed) fingerprints to the CA Dept of Justice to process our background checks. They opened the official seal, but then returned them to us saying we needed to include the embassy's address. The background check results were to be sent to our adoption agency, so we don't know why they wanted that.
Our adoption agency called the CA DOJ, and asked what they wanted exactly. They said they wanted the address of the Ethiopian embassy in Ethiopia. This is impossible of course (as countries do not have an embassy on their own soil). After our adoption agency convinced them that this makes no sense, we are mailing the fingerprints back to them.
Now, the deal is.... we wonder if they will not accept the fingerprints (since they themselves opened the seal). We won't know til the mail arrives in a few days. Please lift up this situation with us. If they won't accept the fingerprints without being in an officially sealed un-tampered with envelope, we will have to buy plane tickets for the family and go try to do our fingerprints again.... only to be unsure of whether the same thing may happen again (if opened by a different CADOJ worker).
Who would've thought California would give us more trouble than foreign governments!
