Moving On

We have "officially" had our home study approved!

Because our home study has been completed for a while, just working on wording that Ethiopia likes more, we have already started our Dossier. This is a huge packet of information that will be sent along with our home study to Ethiopia. We are working hard to get all these documents together, but since they all have to be notarized by the person we are requesting them from, it is taking much longer than we would like.

We just finished our paperwork for USCIS (immigration paperwork to bring orphan into the US) and are waiting on our notarized copy of the home study to send along with it. Really hoping that it arrives before the end of the week. Once USCIS has our paperwork, they will notify us of our appointment for FBI background checks, which we will have to go to either Louisville or Cincinnati to complete. The total processing time for USCIS is about 90 days.

We are hoping to be finished with our Dossier by the time our USCIS approval arrives.

Did I mention that this is a long and tedious process? Oy! I know that it will all be worth it when I see the sweet face our our child!