Fixing the knock out

We heard from our agency last night. Appears as though the reason that our case was issued a "previo" (knock out) was because PGN did not like the way the birthmother's ID certificate looked. They requested a new one be submitted. Although our attorney (Mayra) thinks that this is a ridiculous request (the one that was submitted is fine, legible, and presents no problems), she will go to the birthmothers home town and get a new copy. Luckily, this should not be a big deal to complete other than the time involved in getting it done. We hope to be resubmitted to PGN by late next week. Once resubmitted, our wait begins again. We can only pray that this will be our one and only previo (knock out). If we should be issued another one down the road, the same process is required - pick up the file from PGN, get the requested information, and then resubmit back to PGN. Each and every resubmit starts the 8 - 10 week over again.
The hopeful part of all of this waiting is that PGN seems to be working a tad bit faster than it has in the past. A great deal of heat is behind them since all in-process cases will be suspended as of December 31 2007. But . . .
On October 9th (this Tuesday), there is suppossed to be a "grandfather clause" up for consideration. If allowed, this clause will be attached to the Ortega Law and all of us (about 3000 families) will be allowed to finalize our adoptions. Although no new adoptions will be allowed to begin until the United States becomes a Hague accredited country (which will hopefully be in May 2008), all of us that have began this process with the reassurance that our cases will be completed, will get just that - our children home. We will wait with bated breath for the outcome of Tuesday . . . . until then - pray, hope, read up on the issues, pray again, pray some more, and when you are done with that, repeat.