Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Upcoming Home Study Visit (4 of 4)

I apologize for the short notice on this update, but we are scheduled for our final home study visit tomorrow morning at 9:30! We will keep you posted on how it goes, but the plan is to review the rough draft of our home study to ensure that all the information is accurate. Our social worker told us that this document would be 17-18 pages, so it may be a bit tedious, but very exciting : )
The home study will also be sent to our family coordinator at AWAA and to the state of IL for their approval. This entire process is supposed to take about two weeks.
Once the home study is finalized, we will submit it, and several additional documents, to U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) for approval to bring a child into the U.S. from another country. This process takes roughly 6 – 12 weeks, but once we receive documents back from USCIS, we are free to submit our dossier to Ethiopia! 
We are getting there. All continues to move along very smoothly and we ask that you continue to keep our process in your prayers. God has blessed us with wonderful support and patience thus far and we thank all of you for journeying with us during this exciting time : )

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