Great News! Our fantastic facilitator just e-mailed us. He went to Kiev and picked up the letter that the SDA had for us. The letter states that we can submitt our dossier as soon as we are ready. Most of our documents expire in July, and so we need to redo them. This isn't a big deal except for our medicals, and our marriage license. Since we were married in Las Vegas, we have to get the license from the Clark County Recorders office which can take a while. Then we need to send it back to Las Vegas to get it Apostilled. It can take weeks. I already sent for it last week so pray that it gets back soon. Our medicals could take a week or two also since we have to wait for the labs to come back.

After we get all of the documents apostilled and Fed-Ex'ed to Kostya, then he can go back to Kiev and submitt them. Then the SDA has around 30 days to accept it, then they can grant us an appointment date. Most of the appointments have been scheduled for around 3 months after acceptance, but we are praying for a sooner date. Ukraine is beautiful in the fall ! Keep the prayers coming--anything can still happen.

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after the ophans and widows in thir distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." James 1:27