08 August 2007

USCIS received!

It's not anything fully accomplished... but we received a receipt for our I-600A form from US Customs and Immigration Services. So it was received before the fee change date and our forms have been filed. We have 1 year to submit our Home Study but I am hoping it will only be a couple of weeks. We are still waiting to receive the final copy of our Home Study. Then we can take it with us on a Wednesday for a walk-in fingerprinting appointment to the USCIS office in Yakima. (Sounds like a fun trip, huh?!)

Getting closer.

01 August 2007

What would you like me to bring you from Africa?

This post isn't related to our adoption process; but our family adoption process. In case you haven't seen our two children recently or they didn't make clear how excited they are about our new baby, here's a funny story for you.

My good friend, Becky, is going on a three week mission trip to Rwanda and leaves in about a week. We spent the day together at the zoo recently and Ocean pointed out Africa on a map in the African Savanna exhibit. He announced that our baby is in Ethiopia which is in Africa. (He's quite smart). Becky showed him Rwanda, where she is going and ask him if he would like her to bring back a present for him from Africa. He jumped up and down and said "Yes! Yes!" She ask him what he thought he would like for her to bring back for him and he (still jumping up and down) answered "My baby!"

UGH!

Well, I was preparing to send our Dossier in to AGCI (All God's Children, International) to be checked over and then sent on to DC for US authentication and then off to Ethiopia for translation.....

Then I discovered that there are some papers that need to be fixed. Both of the notaries that signed off with our doctors on Caleb and my medical forms have commissions that expire soon, as well as the one at Caleb's work that stamped on his proof of employment document. And we can't have any of our documents expiring before our adoption is complete. So now I have to go back to both of our doctors offices, probably with my own notary and have the papers signed again. To make matters worse, just yesterday (prior to realization of the notary expiration fiasco) I took Caleb's medical form back to his doctor along with a new copy to be redone because the doctor had used white out on a mistake! Now I have to go back and bug them yet again! I'm not looking forward to it!