Immigration, part 1

On Thursday August 7 we received confirmation that USCIS (Immigration) had received our application and would begin processing it.  It seems that this step of the process is taking anywhere from 30-50 days right now.  We are waiting on a letter from them that will tell us to go down to St. Louis and get fingerprinted.  We are hoping to walk in early for the fingerprint appointment, but it really all depends on our schedules since Konnor will be starting preschool next week.  Really nothing to do but wait for the approval at this point.  The immigration approval is the last piece of paperwork we need before we can be Dossier to China and possibly see pictures of our precious little one.  Hoping it goes quickly.

On other news I talked to a courier in D.C. and they are having difficulty getting Mark's type of birth certificate approved through the Embassy of China.  Sigh....I was hoping we wouldn't have to deal with this again.  We just received Mark's new birth certificate from the Dept. of State in the mail this weekend and I am sending it to the courier today so they can start working on getting it authenticated.  We have a back up plan in place if we can't get the form approved (basically the same as we did with Konnor's adoption), but we would prefer to just get the correct form authenticated and move on.  It will be the end of next week before we hear anything on this front.

Lastly, I am working on getting all our paperwork certified and authenticated for our dossier.  The hope is that we can get this all done in the next few weeks so that once immigration approval comes we can expedite that form and get our paperwork sent off to China for approval.  Baby steps.