Got it

Asya's Social Security card came. It was a little too late for taxes, but it's very nice to have it in hand.

Hurrah!

Will's back. They're going to give Asya a number! It will take a little longer, because her birth certificate has to be checked and translated by Homeland Security. (Can't have any baby terrorists in America, you know.) But they are going to accept it. Thank you for praying!

Pray for mercy :-)

I couldn't get anywhere on the phone (although, I talked to some really smart computers!). So, Will's going to go to the Social Security office. It's really not that far away, which is funny, because we're so far out in the middle of nowhere. Please pray that they'll accept the documents we have. We should have two, and we do, but one is Russian. The American version of Asya's birth certificate is still sitting in Moscow. Pray that they'll take that and her passport as her two documents!

SS# update

We got an answer! I don't know if it's good news or not. Asya's application is officially lost. That means we can apply again, but I'm not sure we have everything we need to do that. Pray for me today as I try to get someone who knows something on the phone.

Asya's Social Security number

Please pray that we'll be able to get it for taxes! They seem to go very slowly overseas with Social Security numbers, and we applied for Asya's in Moscow. Pray that it would come through quickly and not be lost. Pray that I would be able to get in touch with someone who knows about it, and that they would be able to tell me what's going on. (I seem to remember something about you have to ask in person, not by phone or email. . . .)