Adoption Update November 2014

After a good, long 19 months, we are pretty much right back to where we started….

But we are moving forward.

One of the first steps in the adoption process is putting together a home study.  Once this home study is complete, you can file with USCIS (United States Customs and Immigration Services).  We have to file an I-600a, which is asking permission to classify an orphan as an immediate relative.  USCIS will then get our fingerprints, go over our home study and then send us an approval or denial.  If we receive approval from USCIS, we can move forward with an adoption from a specific country.

Our home study has been updated.  You must do this at least once per year, or any time any information changes. 

However, as timing would go, our approval from USCIS ran out right around the time we found out that we would no longer be able to adopt from India.  Thus, we have spent the last few months changing our home study and filing a request to extend our approval with USCIS. 

We are now waiting for our fingerprinting appointment.  Once we get our prints, we will be waiting to hear whether or not USCIS will extend our approval.  THEN we will be able to move forward with a specific country.

The boys are getting very anxious to have their sister home.  They talk about her all the time, randomly.  Nathan especially.  He is always asking me, “Can we leave to go get our sister in 15 minutes?”  Or he will say, “I am getting really big because I am eating all the food you are making for me.  When I can’t fit in my clothes, my little sister is going to need them.”  Precious.

We are continuing to seek the Lord for His timing and direction.  We are confident that He will provide, and we are praying that He would show Himself faithful!  We are looking forward to seeing how all of this will develop for His glory!