February 22nd, 2010

This previous weekend we finally got our stuff in order and sent off our USCIS form I-800A. This form is like a "pre-approval" to adopt someone from another Hague country. Well, technically in government speak it is an "Application for Determination of Suitability to Adopt a Child from a Convention Country". It requires $620 bucks, your home study and a lengthy application. Here is what Rani had to say about it on the original blog post on this date:

Sent our I-800A form off on Saturday. Wouldn’t you know it, I figured out today that the address we were supposed to send it to has changed? I should have checked earlier, I suppose, but I had just checked it when we started putting the form and paperwork together back in December. It will be forwarded, but I’m still kicking myself on that one.

Haven’t received our letter back from the FBI yet, but that is supposed to take 8-10 weeks, so we need to be patient on that one as well. I’m starting to realize that I don’t like all of this waiting. I know, I know, we’ll have to get used to it, and there are even bigger waits ahead of us, so this should be good practice, right? Riiiight…

In the meantime, we have a few more bits of paperwork to gather for our dossier: new letters of employment and also some paperwork about our finances and house. We’re getting down to the last of it, though - hooray!