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|  The home study is done
Well, big news today as you can see by the above named title. Our home study was submitted to the Feds (immigration) so that George Bush can give his stamp of approval on us being fit enough to adopt a child from outside the US. So, here is what is left:
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Get our immigration letter from the INS
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Get all our dossier paperwork state sealed
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Submit the dossier to the Agency for translation, etc.
Then we wait, and wait, and wait. Well, till the next update (FYI the word "till" is in the dictionary and the meaning is "until.") | | |
| Now I'm in IAFIS. . .
Yes, its official--Lorie and I were fingerprinted yesterday by the Feds. That being said I was warned by the immigration officer that my finger prints were good and therefore better not do anything wrong, otherwise "we gonna get you." So latest update is that we got our medical forms and other dossier stuff notarized--luckily we have a friend at church who is a notary and was willing to follow us around town to get paperwork done.
Now that we have a little extra time to begin the planning part, we have actually been looking at cribs and nursery furniture. But no buying yet--I don't think either of us will feel fully confident until all our paperwork goes to China. | | |
| Well, another week of work has gone by and so starts my week off. So here is where we are in the adoption process. . .we have finished all our home study meetings and should be getting the formal home study report in about three weeks. In the mean time we have received our letter to go get fingerprinted by the FBI, so that the INS will approve our adoption. Also we are finishing up the dossier paperwork. The dossier paperwork is the stuff that acutally get translanted into Chinese and is sent to China. It contains documents like our marriage certificate, birth certificate, financial disclosures, employment letters, physical exam reports, and police clearance letters. Everything that we send to China also has to be notorized and then sent to the State of Delaware for certification. . .it is crazy all the paperwork that has to be done. Anyway, barring any major hang ups, we seem to be on schedule for our dossier to be submitted to the Chinese government on July 1st. It cannot be submitted any earlier because we have till wait until Lorie is 30 (China requirement is for both parents to be 30 years of age). I never have seen anyone so excited to turn 30 in all my life. | | |
| Well, here I am going to tell the world about are life during adoption. | | |
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