As I'm sure everyone knows, there is a volcano erupting in Iceland, and the ash plume is creating a lot of problems for airlines and travelers. When watching the news stories, I prayed for the families who are in Ethiopia right now picking up their children. Although, fairly minor, the volcano is affecting us as well. We got an email from our agency today saying that our dossier has made it through the Washington DC leg of it's journey and is on it's way to ET...but we don't know where it is or when it will arrive. It's with FedEx somewhere caught up in the mess.
In order to avoid the new two trip requirement from the ET government (and only have to travel once), we'd have to have our dossier in ET and a referral of a child by May 1st. We knew that we'd be cutting it close anyway, but this snag certainly doesn't help. It's not really a big deal for us, because we probably wouldn't have gotten a referral before then anyway, but I am saying extra prayers for the families that have been matched and are trying to beat the deadline.