Lately...

I thought it was time for an update! We are still waiting on our home study report to be written up by our social worker. I was told it would take around 3-4 weeks from our last home visit. Today was exactly three weeks since our last home visit, so I am hopeful that that will come in soon! I'm getting a little impatient... :)

In the meantime, our social worker at Lifeline emailed me a list of documents that she still needed on her end before we would be able to submit our I-800-A form for immigration. Just a little timeline as to what is coming: when our social worker finishes our home study report, she will send that to Lifeline and they will review it to make sure it is acceptable to send to China. While they are reviewing it, they will go ahead and send us the I-800-A form to fill out and then all of that (form and home study) will be sent to US Customs and Immigration Services, in Dallas. The approval we need from them should take around 2-3 months, and then we will be ready to be DTC (Dossier to China)!! Hopefully that happens close to my birthday on August 24th.

The documents that I have been working on getting to Lifeline have been:
- Child Desired form (more on this in a later post)
- Certificate of Income and Property
- Pay check stubs
- Financial Worksheet (information on insurance, prices of therapies, etc)
- Letters of Profession (per spouse)
- Proposed Guardian form
- Education certificates (saying we have completed our required hours)
- Autobiographies
- Questionnaires
- Medicals (more on this in a later post)

Some of these were pretty fast and some took a lot longer. We have completed everything as of today except for the medicals and Randy needs to finish his questionnaires. We should have all that wrapped up this week!

We are excited and ready to move on to the next stage. I have heard that it is harder to wait when you're not on the paper chase that we are now, but any progress sounds great to me! I am so ready to have our referral and see the sweet face of the little girl God has for us!

**Update on the Update**
I have finished my questionnaires :)
(and the medicals are complete - after 5 visits to the doctor!!) - Randy