His Plan

God has different plans for us. We are not going to China. Read our new blog Back to Kaz for the details.

Dossier On Hold

We successfully got our documents state certified on September 29th. But something has come up that has made us decide to put things on hold for one month. Stay Tuned!

Our I-171H is Here!

This morning Cameron and I drove to the Post Office and an envelope from Homeland Security was waiting for us. Inside was the much anticipated I-171H, "Notice of Favorable Dispostion Concerning Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition."

Tomorrow we will be driving to Atlanta to have all our documents state certified by the Secretary of State. Hopefully I'll have another positive update tomorrow evening!

Your Home Study Has Been Sent

We received an email from our agency this afternoon. Our home study is being overnighted to USCIS. I'm so excited! Someone who had theirs mailed this last Friday, received their I-171H today. This means we could have ours next Monday!!

Amazing Social Worker!

Our social worker somehow managed to draft our home study narrative in record time. I was able to get the drafts this morning, make edit to them and return them to her. She's now made the changes and is forwarding them to the individuals who review them for our agency. I'm hoping this means that the long version may be sent to USCIS next Friday. If it does, then we could be getting our I-171H October 8th!

Fingerprints and a Home Study

We're over two more hurdles! Yesterday, we drove up to Atlanta and had our fingerprints taken for Immigration. We ran into a couple we met at our agency orientation, who were there for the same reason. Everything went smoothly and we treated ourselves to lunch at the S&S.

This afternoon, our social worker came for our home visit. She was here for a couple hours. It was all very relaxed.

We now wait for her to write everything up. She'll be doing two versions. A "long version" which goes to Immigration, and a "short version" that will become part of our dossier. Once CCAI approves it, the "long version" will be sent to USCIS, and we'll start the wait for our I-171H, which gives us pre-approval to bring an internationally adopted child into the US.

After we received it, we'll have to have all documents state certified and then authenticated by the Chinese Consulate in Houston.

Once all that has been done, they'll be off to CCAI, where Katie will review the documents and provide a translation. Then off our dossier will go to China. We'll be DTC!!

New Appointment Set for SW

We talked to our social worker last night. She'll be coming to our house this Sunday at 2:30 p.m. to do our home study. We're hoping she'll be able to get it written up quickly.

We're still planning on going up to Atlanta to get our fingerprints taken on Saturday.