A bit more about the changing of requirements

I've learned some more about the changing of requirements. We know that the reason behind changing to have the adopting parents make 2 trips to Ethiopia now is all for what is best for the children. It is to protect them from not being left high and dry after thinking they were going home with their new family. As this does cause some extra burdens with taking off of work for an extra week, childcare for our girls for a week while we are gone, and the extra money for plane tickets...we do now it is for the best. We have to say that stumbling blocks appear often in this adoption journey. However, there is some positive things that come out of these changes that I have recently found out about. I thought I should share. Before this change, the newly adopted child would be granted an IR4 visa. This means the child is not technically a US citizen until you go through the re-adoption process in the US court system. Now that the first trip is when the parents go to court instead of the agency acting for us, the newly adopted child travels to the US on an IR3 visa. This mean as soon as they step foot off the plane they are a US citizen. After reading some blogs from people that have adopted a child on an IR4 and an IR3...they say that an IR4 is way more headache (not to mention lawyer's fees, additional time, etc....) to try to get them readopted once we return. It is confusing to me, but hearing from people that have gone through all if this say that an IR3 is much better makes me feel better about all of the additional extras.