I-600A!

We received our notarized home study in the mail yesterday, so I immediately added it to my I-600A form and copies of our birth certificates and marriage certificate and put them in the mail to USCIS. Hopefully we'll hear from them soon about our fingerprinting date, but for now I'm just working on the last few pieces of paper for our dossier so I can send that in to Holt.

New Pics

Here are some recent pics from when Sonja, Evan and Sage visited, a couple of weekends ago. We went out to Chinese food on Sunday where we all stuffed ourselves with Peking Duck and oysters as big as your head. . . seriously, they're amazing!

Update

I figured I should let everyone know where we are in this crazy adoption process. We have had our homestudy visits and gotten the rough draft emailed to us for corrections. I sent it back right away, last week, but have not received the final notarized copy yet. Once I get that I can send in our I600A which is what we file to the US Immigration department for approval to adopt. I can also turn in our dossier, minus the I600A approval. Once this is approved we can send our dossier to Ethiopia and be officially "waiting" for a referral. In reality we will get on the list as soon as we submit our dossier, even before the I600A approval comes but if we were to get a referral before that was done, we would have to wait until we had received it to move forward. Right now they are saying that from dossier to referral is 3-6 months so I'm hoping we'll have a referral by fall.