USCIS Approval!

We recieved an email this morning that we are approved through the Department of Homeland Security (aka. I 800-a approval through USCIS) to adopt from China! We should be getting the official notice in the mail by the end of this week.

Our next step is to get all of our notarized documents for our dossier certified in Olympia. After those come back, we send them to the US Consulate to get Authenticated. Then all of the documents/dossier gets translated and sent to China.

A wonderful Gift... Our PA

What a wonderful Christmas Gift! We finally got our Pre Approval today! We have until March 23rd to get our paperwork to China and then they will do a final review (i think i have that info. correct:))

Isn't she just precious!!! Hayleigh asks EVERYDAY if we are getting Maylynn today... She is really excited to be getting a sister:)

A quick update...

1. We are still waiting for our fingerprint approval from USCIS - it should be here before Dec. 25th... We'll see:)
2. We have gone ahead and are trying to get some out of state documents certified and authenticated - i hope to have that completed by next week.
3. We signed and returned to our agency the "official" Letter of Intent.
4. We are waiting to hear if we've recieved our pre-approval from CCAA to adopt Maylynn - once we have, i think i can post a pic and send her a package:)
5. We are trying to sell our travel trailer to use the equity for the adoption.
5. We just found out the CCAA is raising the orphanage fee by $2000 dollars - big bummer! Not too sure how that's going to affect us yet... i guess the equity in the trailer will be a "wash"... Oh well.

We are hoping to bring her home in April or May - we'll see what God has planned though:)