May 26th our home study was finalized, signed, and notarized by our social worker. YAY! I received it in the mail on June 4th and high tailed it to the Fed-Ex office to send it off to the US Department of Homeland Security. It arrived there today! At this location in Texas, the paperwork and application called the I800-A get processed. It is called "Application for Determination of Suitability to Adopt a Child from a Convention Country". A case worker will be assigned and will run through our paperwork with a fine toothed comb and then schedule us at a federal government office (Spokane Court house) to have fingerprinting done. This can take 1 1/2 -2 months time. So that is where we are at...beginning, today, a 1 1/2-2 month wait for fingerprinting! Hoping it goes quickly!!
Our agency sent an email today saying that the China program is moving quickly and they are expecting many new files in the coming months! How exciting! Never know when we might get a call! We are probably 2-3 months out before we are logged in with China.
