Update on Immigration

Hope you are all doing well! Thank you so much to all of you that have been asking us about how things are going. I am sorry that once again it has been a little while in between posts-I have now identified why I take so stinkin long-2 reasons. Reason #1- we have a lack of info, so it is hard to write when there aren't a lot of answers. Reason #2- I have realized I tend to be a more private/internal person.  This is also why I am terrible at fb-I am not really comfortable having my thoughts published for everyone to see. You may be saying, why did you start a blog then? Great question-I really want to use this to keep people involved in our adoption process and to share in this journey. So I am going to work to eliminate Reason #2 and I am praying Reason #1 takes care of itself:)

Where we are right now-before you can adopt internationally, you have to have permission from the US government. Once again this is something that requires a good amount of paperwork, a chunk of money, and about 60 days. We have an awesome social worker who got our home study completed crazy fast, so we were able to overnight everything required in the very beginning of April. About halfway through the process we were supposed to be scheduled for fingerprinting. Then shortly after get our approval. I would run to the mailbox everyday like some giddy little schoolgirl anxiously awaiting our fingerprinting info, but it just wasn't coming. After numerous phonecalls for about 2 1/2 weeks someone finally told us that our homestudy was not with our paperwork and needed to be resent. We were very frustrated, but were relieved to at least have some answers.

We overnighted our homestudy to them again 3 weeks ago. We were told we would have our fingerprinting in 5-10 days. Frustration and disappointment. I called once again yesterday to check on things, and I was told everything was there and we should be assigned an officer anytime as well as receive our fingerprinting notification. Officer White was the name of the person that was so helpful to us 3 weeks ago and finally got us some answers, and she is also the person I was put in contact with yesterday. We have talked to many different people, but she has been the nicest and most helpful. Thankfully, she said she should be the one to receive our case and promised she would make sure we were taken care of. We are disappointed that things have taken this long and still aren't resolved but I do feel better knowing this kind woman is willing to help us with this piece of the process.

Our timeline had us sending in our dossier the beginning of June. Now we are hoping to send it by the first of July. We know it is only a month delay, but that is one month longer til we get to hold our sweet baby. Jonathon and I both can get overwhelmed by the weight of the process. Thankfully, it usually hits us at different times, so we can balance the other one out. We KNOW this is all in the Lord's hands. Our "timeline" is just feeble anyway. He has our son/daughter chosen and we will be joined together in His perfect timing. Most days, we stand firm on this and have an incredible peace. But some days are harder than others.

Thank you so much for your prayers and support. We truly cherish it.

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