EP Approval Lookout

Well the end of September brought about frustrating news yet again as they announced that the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare was moving their office from Seoul to a city about 2 hours away. This move is to occur sometime between Oct and Dec and could cause more delays. No once can confirm what the Ministry's plan is to continue accepting or approving or what types of delays could be coming?!?  

It would be great if they purged a whole bunch of files so they don't have to pack them up and chance loosing bits & pieces.  It would also help to keep the court dates moving without a lull because they didn't have any families to meet with. But that's just my logical brain thinking about and making a plan. This was a hard hit of news and pretty much put me in a funk for a few days wondering if January/February was even within our reach. 

So then October 1st rolled around and WOW, we saw much needed good news including a few court dates and EP approvals! These approvals were for the remainder of March and part of April 2012 referrals. YES..YES..YES!! This means we should be in the next batch of approvals. Though we are not sure when this will occur, at least I feel like we are on the cusp of something GREAT again! 

As I type this we have been waiting 52 days. The last group waited 67 days for approval, the overall average wait is 60 days, and the longest a family has waited is 84 days. So REALLY hoping in about 2 weeks we'll hear something. Something positive and not, "you need to redo your fingerprints for FBI clearances." Sadly this has happened to a number of families and so disappointing this late in the game. But my chin is up, thinking positive and anxiously on the lookout for our file to be approved!!!