God's deliverance

Hi, Friends and Family! Today's thanks goes to Ms. Pamela Ewing, Nadeem's boss at SunTrust, who so kindly helped Nadeem get FMLA to extend our stay here for up to 30 more days. (Now, don't panic. That's not necessarily God's timing; that's the adoption allowance for leave from work.) We also appreciate all of Nadeem's co-workers who are supporting our adoption journey. We also got our plane tickets worked out. We have open tickets for whenever we're ready to schedule our return trip. In spite of this good news to report, we've faced some troubling news. Before we can get approval to have our fingerprints taken here, we must have a complete application at home. We assumed that we did since we hired an attorney to help us with this and followed the directions we were given. We learned about a week ago that Nadeem's birth certificate was lost in the process. Nadeem faxed a new copy a week ago from Bangladesh. We just heard on Friday that the lawyer's office has still not submitted it. It's in Swedish, and they wanted it translated first. Then they said they couldn't see his birthday on it, even thought it's in the top right hand corner. In other countries they write the day first and then the month. Of course we were very frustrated to hear this news. In addition, the lawyer's office told us the earliest the USCIS will meet with them to hear about our problems in October 9. We've contacted the USCIS and have received no response. The Senator's office also has received no response. I'm feeling like the Israelites after Moses appeared to Pharaoh and asked him to let the people go. In response, Pharaoh increased their workload and therefore their difficulties. Moses asked God why He had brought trouble on His people. God responded in Exodus 6:5,6 "I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. Therefore say to the children of Israel 'I am the Lord; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments." I believe this is God's message to us. He hears our groanings. He has not forgotten us. God is saving us and delivering us. We are His children.
The other night Nadeem had troubles with his SunTrust email, so he called the 24/7 help line. Even in the middle of the night in Atlanta, they helped him. I thought that I wished that we had an adoption help line. We DO! God IS out help line. Even though it feels like we're getting a busy signal or an automated response, God is working on our behalf!
We have a precious prayer team of 9 ladies who pray for us around the clock. This past week God gave many of them the exact same message when they prayed for guidance on how to pray for us. He told them to sing and praise His name. Every night here around 3 a.m. a large group of people walk through the streets oustide this apartment chanting some sort of Muslim prayers in the foreign language. A leader seems to use a megaphone or loudspeaker, and then all the people echo him. It's a very eerie, disturbing sound. I'm usually up with Kalina when it happens. If all those people can walk through the streets yelling out their prayers, I KNOW that we can all join together in singing and praising God! We're not doing this to manipulate God or to push the magic button to set us free. We're doing it to proclaim that our God is the most awesome God whose will is perfect. We love Him and trust Him. We know that He already has a plan for our deliverance and homecoming, and we're thanking Him for it. Psalm 27:6 "I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord."