Don't feel bad! There are days I have to remind myself what some of it is!
Right now in the process we are waiting on approval of our I-800A from USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services).
For those of you who are also friends with the Casey family and the Hill family and have heard them mention their I-600A, you are not going crazy! Correct me if I'm wrong ladies!
Theirs is required for adopting a child from a non-Hague country and our I-800A is for adopting from a Hague country.
Still confused? Moving on….. :-)
I know it seems crazy to others who are not adopting, but I am praying for those precious forms that were delivered to that lockbox in Texas.
I am praying for the hands that pick up and open that envelope and assign our case to an officer….
I am praying for the officer that reviews our paperwork….
Praying that he or she finds no errors….
Having our fingerprints done again is also part of this process. Once you get your receipt from USCIS that your paperwork has been received, you wait on a fingerprint appointment.
Our agency has suggested we could attempt to take our receipt and head to the fingerprint office in Birmingham and see if they would take us as a walk-in. This could shave 2 to 3 weeks off our process!!
Would you pray with us that we when we get our receipt in the mail and go to Birmingham that they will graciously accept us and do our fingerprints early?
I know that might seem like a silly thing to pray for….
But I know that God loves to give us the desires of our heart and I believe that every minor detail of our adoption of MinLan is important to the Lord.
While we wait on our I-800A approval, we will continue gathering documents to complete our dossier. We already have some of them, some are super easy to pull together and some just take a little legwork.
I have a page protector in our dossier binder with each document we need labeled. All we have to do is fill in each sheet protector and then we are done with our dossier!
Now to fill up that little pink binder!!!!
Thanks so much to all of you who donated towards our iPad Mini giveaway and our American Girl giveaway! We are truly blessed with the BEST friends and family and we are so thankful for your support!
We found out on Saturday that we have been awarded a $4000 grant with Brittany's Hope! What a blessing! Here's how that works: we raise half of the money through fundraisers and donations for a total of $2000. Once received by Brittany's Hope, they match those funds, for a total of $4000 that will go towards our travel to China!!!!
We are so overjoyed by this gift and will work hard to raise our part of the grant. Soon we will have details about where you can make a tax deductible donation directly to Brittany's Hope towards our adoption.
We still have bracelets for sale, are planning a yard sale with our sweet friends the Casey's in September, our coffee website fundraiser, another iPad Mini giveaway in November and several others in the works! Thanks again for all of your support!
Can't wait to tuck this precious little girl into her new pink room next to her sisters…..
We are coming sweet girl!
Mommy
