I-171H

We received our approval from the Department of Immigration to adopt an orphan! This was really fast, it came only 2 weeks after we got our fingerprints, and sometimes this takes months! From here we have to make sure it gets to Ethiopia so that when we get a referral there are no hangups. That sounds simple, but apparently many people's are getting lost somewhere between the local Immigration office and the National Visa Center so I'll be spending some time on the phone soon making sure that everything is happening the way it's supposed to.

Dossier done!

I sent in our dossier today . . . finally! It seems like the last couple of things took forever to put together but it's finally done . . . all 33 pages of it, plus photocopies! Hopefully there won't be anything I have to redo and we'll be "officially waiting."

Fingerprinting

We got two things in the mail on Saturday - our notice that the Department of Immigration had received our I-600A and that our fingerprinting would be on Saturday the 14th. We also received the last documents for our dossier - our local police clearance letters - so as soon as I can get everything notarized and authenticated, I can turn in our dossier! Then we will be officially waiting!