Cory and I keep plugging away with the 'paperwork' phase of the adoption. We had our homestudy visit on Tuesday at our house and it went really well. This should hopefully be our last homestudy visit, and now we just wait on our social worker completing the paperwork. Then we will submit it to our agency, who will likely want some changes (usually inevitable :-) - but it is better to get the language accurate now so we don't run into snags in the future!
Once we get the approval from our agency on our homestudy, we work on submitting our 1-600 form into the United Statesd Citizenship and Immigration Services. They are essentially giving our adopted child permission to enter the US. So still some running around to do!
For some clarification, we do not have a referral of a child yet. That could be years away at this point as there are still so many changes going on and no one is really sure of where they will go. Once we get all of our paperwork submitted and approved, we will get put on the child waiting list. Hopefully we will get monthly updates on where we are 'unofficially' on the list.
Other than that, life is just going on as normal. We are just anxiously awaiting for spring to arrive! I LOVE warm weather!!!
We ask for prayers again for Cory's dad as he heads down to Rochester tomorrow for another scan. Hoping that the chemo is shrinking the cancer in his liver! We also ask for prayers for the children and volunteers at Children of the Promise. They have a nasty little bug going around, and we have found out that the little girl that we had on our last trip, passed away on Thursday. Our hearts are broken... This little girl was being adopted by a Haitian couple and they were literally just days away from taking her home.
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