meeting with senator Klob*uchar

Many members of congress have worked so hard to renew the MOU with Viet*nam. A group of us met with Sen Klob*uchar Saturday to give her more information about each of our situations. She is unbelievably supportive and we know that she is working to do everything she can. She took time out of her Saturday, literally flying in from a meeting and on her way to a family friends funeral but still made time to meet with us in between. Let's hope this get us somewhere....

she's gonna be a rockstar baby

we received our 171-H today!

We went to dinner at one of our fav neighborhood restaurants, First Course, to celebrate.

our home study documents were sent to USCIS

And now we are just waiting for our 171-H.

recieved the first draft of our home study

We will return our home study draft. Our social worker will update, notarize and send to USCIS to begin processing for our 1-171H (approval to adopt an orphan) Next big steps 1) beginning our Dossier and receiving our 171H.

where are we at in our adoption process?

Had conversation with the program director to further understand where we’re at, why we can’t start the Dossier and what to now expect with some of the changes. She was great, informative, and patient. Learned we can’t start the Dossier until Feb. Was suppose to originally do in December, then pushed back starting until 1st week of January now it’s another month to start it. The delays begin….

digitally fingerprinted by the US government

We went over lunch and it was a cold and snowy afternoon.

receipt of I600-A and an invite to fingerprint!

We made an appointment to get electronically fingerprinted.

our case worker visits our home

We had our final meeting with our case worker. She’ll spend 15 min. or so with Max and the rest of the time with us. Should be able to start the dossier & Vietnam application right after that.