Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Short Update

We have approved a final copy of the Home Study report and sent in the acceptance letter. As soon as we get our original copies we can send in our packet with the I-800A form for the government. We are super excited!!!! I'm glad we are moving forward and that things are actually going pretty smoothly.

Have a Happy Halloween!

Friday, October 16, 2009

We are DONE!

We had our last meeting with the social worker last night. We turned in the last of our paperwork and went over some of the information we learned in the Heart of the Matters DVD program. Overall, it was a very nice meeting. We are very excited to finally be moving on to the next stage of the adoption process! Lori sent me a rough draft of the home study report and I read through it this morning. I didn’t have to make many changes, just a few things here and there. All in all, it looked good, so I made a few comments and sent it back to her for further review. Once it is finalized, we can approve and accept the home study report and send it in to the USCIS. We are at the end of the paperwork stage!!! FINALLY!!

We hope to be approved by the USCIS by the end of the year. What an AWESOME Christmas present that would be!


Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Almost Done!


Our last meeting with the social worker is this Thursday. We will be turning in the last of the paperwork (Heart of the Matters Certificates and a new Verification of Employment letter) and hopefully be looking at a rough copy of the home study report. Our DCF abuse/neglect research requests came back and all of our reference letters are in! This means by the end of the month, we should be able to apply to the USCIS and get our fingerprinting scheduled. YAY!!

Other than that, things have been pretty normal. The hectic flurry of paper has dissipated finally. We are focusing on the holidays now and trying not to think about all the waiting we have ahead of us.