.Ahhhhh!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!! This strangely feels like after months of trying to conceive (which yes I know is nothing), finally being pregnant! WE ARE DOING THIS! || PauseWe updated you a couple of months ago that we were SO CLOSE to being done with our Home Study. And we were! It was all typed up by our social worker, proofread, updated, checked again, and all we needed was Robert's background check from Colorado to come through. (Where he lived for one teeny summer after moving to the US at age 18 before college started.) Well.....I got excited and started filling out our USCIS application . I then realized that my dear adult nephew, James, who has been living with us for his gap year after high school, would of course need to be included in our USCIS application because he was included in our Home Study as an Additional Adult in the Home. That would mean an addendum and more finger printing in Idaho. The trouble was, he was planning to move back to Texas at the end of May! So getting finger printed in Idaho as a legally-reported resident of our home...who was no longer living in our home...would get complicated to say the least! I called our wonderful social worker to tell her my dilemma. We were soooooo close! She lamented with me but confirmed my suspicions that our USCIS application was going to be real complicated if he moved out soon. We might as well wait 6 weeks to finalize our Home Study the day after he left (Memorial Day) without him in it. (Sorry James! Thanks for supporting our adoption! ;P ) > PlaySo here we are! After 6 weeks of telling all our sweet friends who asked for adoption updates that we were doing NOTHING at the moment (ok, we were finishing some training too), we are Home Study Aproved!!!!! >> What's Next?1. As soon as we get our hard copies of our big ol' Home Study, I get to send off that USCIS application! (and nearly $1000) Being the awesome planner that I am, I already requested new copies of our Birth Certificates and Marriage License months ago so I would be ready for our Dossier! I'll let you know when I find out what a dossier actually is. :P
2. We get to pay $2500 to our Local Agency and $3000 to our international agency for all the hard work they are doing. Yes, I said GET TO! We have been saving and saving, so it's pretty exciting to right some fat checks! 3. We get to start applying for Grants!!!!!!!!!! 4. We are officially WAITING FOR A MATCH! This typically takes 6-12 months for families waiting for sibling groups. Eeeeek!!!
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