Something's fishy

After a week of no news, Tammy and I decided to take matters into our own hands and go to the court ourselves to get some information. First we went to the court where our hearing was to see if they could tell us anything about the appeal. The secretary there found some paperwork from our case, but I'm not sure exactly what it was. I think it just documented our hearing. She then called three different people at the appeals court to try to find out the status of our case, but nobody could find anything. She suggested that we go to the appeals court to see if they could help us there. At the appeals court, the secretary could not find any record of our case by our name. We called our facilitator to see if he could give us our case number or the name of the judge at the appeals court that was in charge of our case. Andrei said that he didn't have our documents with him, so he did not have the case number and he did not know the name of the appeals court judge. He said that he would call the inspector in Simferopol (in charge of all adoptions in the region) and ask her for it. She could not give it to him, I don't remember the reason he gave me, so I asked him to talk to the secretary at the appeals court to see if he could get any information. He has never actually spoken with anyone at the appeals court yet because he didn't have the phone number. After talking with the lady, he got the number there and said he would call her back tomorrow with our case number to see if she could find out anything else. We just think that it is kind of weird that nobody has any documentation anywhere that an application for an appeal was ever made. Tomorrow, Tammy and I are going to go back to the court to see if we can get the case number ourselves and copies of documents from our case. Then we'll go back to the appeals court again with the additional information to see what we can find out. There is only one appeals court for all of Crimea, so it is possible that they are just backed up and the application for ours hasn't been processed yet, but something still seems fishy. Hopefully we can get some answers tomorrow.