Moving Along....

Well, the adoption process seems as slow as molasses sometimes....but right now we are in one of those times where I can affect change, depending on how quickly I get things together.

We have a few more papers to deliver to our home study agency:

• our medical reports, mine is done..the kids are scheduled for appointments this week with the new pediatrician...Bryan's appointment will be this week as well.
• one financial form 
• our references...I think they are almost all turned in...our friends and family send them in to the agency themselves.

After all of the paperwork is turned in, they will officially assign our family to our social worker. I'm excited that we will have the same one that we had with our adoption of MinLan! She feels like part of the family!  We had an already scheduled post placement visit with her the other day that hopefully will count as a needed visit for our adoption of John Preston.  I called our agency the other day to confirm all of that and they are getting back to me.

The next step after being assigned a social worker, is for her to update our home study.  She'll add in all of MinLan's information, update mine and Bryan's work information and anything else that has changed since we adopted MinLan.

Once that is written, it will be reviewed by our home study agency and then it will be reviewed by our placing agency in Delaware. Once it has their approval, then we can file our I-800A paperwork with USCIS.  This is where the United States government determines our suitability to adopt John Preston.  This paperwork is running about a month right now to come back with approval, according to our agency.  With MinLan our approval took SIXTY-FOUR days!! We are praying for a much shorter wait this time!! Please pray with us!

Once the USCIS approval is back then our dossier can be sent to China. The great news is that we get to reuse our documents from our adoption with MinLan. So getting it to China hopefully will be a quick turn around process.  

Thanks so much for continuing to pray for our family and for John Preston. Thank you for supporting the fundraisers we have had and for generously giving to our Story of 1000. We are blessed!

Love,

Jenifer