Wednesday, December 16, 2009

More FBI fingerprints

We went in today for our 2nd set of FBI fingerprints. These are for our dossier.
We were told there is a hold up with FBI on fingerprints so we may not receive back for 8-9 weeks. We will see!

Jenny

Friday, December 11, 2009

Home study done next step is USCIS

We got our home study final papers today! Yeah!!!
We are turning in all of our docs tomorrow to the USCIS for immigration approval.
So on to the next step!
Supposedly it takes 90 days. It is nice to finally move on from the home study and start a new phase.
We will be ready to submit our dossier as soon as we get approvals. We are pretty much done with all dossier docs.

Jenny

Friday, December 4, 2009

Homestudy almost finalized but more delays on horizon!

Well it has taken a few weeks for the manager at our Homestudy agency to approve and finalize our homestudy. It was finally sent to our Adoption agency today. Our agency reviewed and sent back the revisions right away. Our social worker is wonderful there. So we are hoping by next week it's finally all complete and we can move on to the USCIS stage.

We were told today however to expect more delays. I guess the FBI clearances are taking a long time, they are backed up. And the Kaz embassy is also very backed up, they have been flooded with new dossier submissions and will be backlogged now.

So at this point it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel here.
It sounds like many couples are in the same boat we are, must be a lot of people out there adoptiong and facing the same struggles we have.

It's hard to understand sometimes why it's so difficult for people like me to just have a family. It's so very easy for some, it doesn't make sense sometimes....
I do know however that others are worse off and have gone through much more difficult things.
I guess I just have to be patient and know that one day I will understand. It's funny how life is like that. The most difficult things I have faced in my life didn't make sense at the time. But in time I could see why I had to face that issue and somehow it made sense.

So here's to hoping when I look back and read this one day I will 'get it' and it will all make sense!

Jenny