Home Study Complete!

On Friday we picked up our completed home study! This is the biggest chunk of paperwork that is included in the dossier that will be sent to Colombia. After we picked up our home study we went to KCMO to visit the Homeland Security Office to file our I-600A - otherwise known as the "Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition". This is the form that the US government will use to determine if we are fit to be parents in their eyes. We were surprised how quick the process went when we go there - we handed an immigration officer our home study, birth certificates, marriage certificate, and our completed I-600A. We paid our fees, got our fingerprints done, and we were on our way! We should get I-171H back in 90 days or less and this will be the final document we need to include in our dossier. Everyone cross their fingers that it will get back to us sooner than that! While we are waiting for the I-171H we have some additional paperwork we need to finish along with some photo layouts for both the Colombian government and our new baby and his or her foster family.