A step forward!

Our Home Study finally got through all the hoops and arrived in our mailbox! We took it this past Wednesday to Yakima to submit to join our waiting I-600A form. We also got our fingers printed on these cool machines that looked right out of the CSI tv show! Our fingers were scanned by a machine and showed up on a computer screen and the computer would tell the technician if the prints were good or if they needed to print them again. They didn't even ink our fingers, so we didn't get dirty!

Now we are waiting for our USCIS approval letter (also known as Favorable Determination Letter or FDL) before we will be placed on the waiting list for a child. This should take 6-8 weeks.

We are also now (since we are waiting for the FDL) able to send in our completed Dossier to our adoption agency for review. Then it will be sent on to Washington DC for US Authentication and on to Ethiopia for translation. Unfortunately, while making the 4 complete photocopies of the Dossier I need to send in I discovered an error in another one of our papers and am working to get that redone this week.

In Ethiopia the courts are still closed until the 1st of October for their millennium celebration. Hopefully when they reopen everything runs smoothly. Y2K was a scare for us, I wonder if it is for them?