Sunday, March 24, 2013

I-800A Approval!!

YAY, we've been watching the mail for our decoder ring and it has arrived - the I-800A approval.  We received it yesterday about 4 days after our fingerprint appointment.  We did our our fingerprints on Tuesday morning.   Within the hour, we were on our way to the bank to have everything notarized.   The notary was a young woman who was new at being a notary and was a little bit nervous about the cover letter  for most of the documents.  But, we did get it done.  On Monday, Jerry will take all of the documents to Olympia, the capitol, about and hour and 1/2 to 2 hours away to get everything apostilled.  By Monday evening, the comleted dossier should be on it's way via Fed Ex.  Then we wait some more :(   I really don't do that part well.  We are hoping for the first trip in May.

Our stateside facilitator suggested that after the first trip, we may want to hire a local to give Troy english lessons to prepare him for the transission.  Apparently, this isn't too expensive and could really help.  We didn't do that with Kaden and Meghan.  Would love to hear from anyone who may have done this.

On a side note, we received an email last night from one of the workers at Kaden's orphanage.  She is wanting to hear about him and his family.  Can't wait to tell her how well he is doing and send over some pictures.

With our dreary weather during the winter, we have mostly been held up in the house annoying each other.  The first day of spring we got about 3 inches of snow (this is Seattle, mostly rain).  Can't wait for the weather to get nicer so we can get out and take some pictures we can share.  I know how people like pictures.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Still Waiting


There really hasn't been anything to report on the adoption front lately.  We are still waiting for our I-800A approval.  We do have a fingerprint appoint on the 19th.  They had some problems getting good prints for me last time.  I am doing lots of lotion in preparation.  Let's hope there are no problems.  We have been assigned on officer and found out that we didn't send in a copy of our home study with the application.  Silly me.  We sent that back yesterday.  Hoping for a very quick response after our prints are done.

Dossier is almost complete.  Waiting for just a couple of things back from our Social worker today and then our medical clearances should be done next week.  Last item of business is getting those family pictures printed out.

Jerry will be travelling alone to go visit Troy.  Can't wait for that to happen.  I am excited to hear about him.