Social Worker Visit take 2

We had our (hopefully) final visit with our social worker Amber on Thursday evening.  We drove to Ormond Beach to meet with her at her office.  It was much better than paying her to travel to see us.  The visit went well, we met at 7pm and didn’t leave until about 9pm.  She asked more follow-up questions about our families, what life was like growing up as kids, etc.  We turned in our background checks and some other paperwork.  She gave us some adoption homework to read through, most of it was great, some of it, not so much, but I read through it anyhow.  Overall, the visit went great!  We will be with Amber for at least 5 more years (because China now requires post placement visits up to 5 years after we come home).  It’s a long time, but we like her, so it makes things much easier.  I'm just glad that the Home Study process is over with.  As soon as she gets us a final copy, we can apply to the USCIS.  I am hoping to do that by the beginning of September.

Now all we have to do is some research to find some special needs adoption training to bring our hours up to the new minimum for China, which is 12 hours.  We already had 10 from the Heart of the Matters, but now we need to find two more hours of Hague Accredited training, which shouldn’t be too hard.  WIsh us luck!