Preliminary Approval!

We received word today from our agency that we were granted preliminary approval through the court system.  This basically means the judge ruled in favor of our adoption following our court appearance!!  Going forward there is a fourteen day appeal period where birth families are able to appeal the judge's decision.  Our agency communicated to us that this appeal period begins today, December 23rd and receiving final approval could take up to 16-20 days (not just 14 days) due to extra time needed for the court to notify the Korean agency and then pass on the final approval to our US agency. There is still a possibility while we are waiting for the appeal period to expire the judge could publicly post our case information which adds at least an extra two weeks.  This is usually done if there is no response from birth parents or when they cannot be located.  We realize this is a super vague timeline, but this seems to be the nature of the adoption journey.  Once we have final approval a date and time will be set for custody.  This will be our forever family day and this is what we remain focused on during the uncertainty of the this last bit of waiting!