Forms and fingerprints

Progress is being made as we cross things off the list in preparation for our home study. Our long weekend got extended due to flooding in Cale's office so we made the most of him being home this morning and went and got our fingerprinting done. We have lived in Ohio for many years, but because we had that brief stint in Namibia, we haven't been here for the last 5 consecutive years. This isn't a huge deal, but means that we had to do BCII and FBI fingerprinting which really just means to us that it cost more! Hopefully there won't be any other complications in light of our international travel.

Other exciting news (to us!) is that we got our appointment with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services office for next week. We have to go there to "have our biometrics taken." (I know- three set of fingerprints seems silly, but we're just following the rules!) This is the office that basically approves us at a national level for adoption and once our home study is complete we wait for their clearance. That magic piece of paper called an I-171 is what holds many a family up in submitting the dossier. We are already praying that our case gets processed through this office in a timely fashion with no major bumps along the way.

-kate-