The couple at the centre of the Internet adoption row were due to learn today whether social workers would retain custody of the twins they brought into the country.
Alan and Judith Kilshaw were set to appear before Birmingham's High Court, where they will fight an application from their local council who want to make the girls wards of court.
The twins were taken from the Kilshaws' home in Buckley, north Wales, on Thursday by Flintshire County Council who served an emergency protection order on the couple.
Leaving their home last night to travel to the hearing, the Kilshaws put on a brave face despite a fierce row that has blown up on both sides of the Atlantic with the twins' natural mother and another couple claiming they own the children.
Mrs Kilshaw, 47, said: "I am still strong and still together and we are still fighting for our children because they are our children."
The outcry over the case has provoked the Department of Health to speed up the passage of new laws protecting babies being adopted abroad and brought back to Britain.
PA