Finally, another significant milestone!

We got our completed homestudy in our fat little hands last Friday, Janaury 21.  What a wonderful thing to have that part of the journey done!  Of course, I had hoped to receive it prior to Friday so I could get it sent out for certification in Atlanta last week, but I was still happy to get it when I did.

So this week has been about pushing the paperwork a little farther.  I sent all of our Georgia documents to Atlanta for state certification on Monday, and hope to get those back maybe late next week.  And yesterday I sent in our I-800A application to the USCIS lockbox in Dallas.  This is a big step in getting us closer to sending our dossier to China.  Now we wait for a fingerprint appointment in Jacksonville, FL and hope our application gets approved as soon as possible.  I still doubt we'll be DTC by February 26th, our deadline for our approval to adopt Joshua, but we can get a short extension if we need to.

Now I have nothing to do but wait.  In the meantime, we are hoping to get another referral from AWAA.  It's a longish story, and another example of God's hand at work, but I'll save that for another post.

Hope to hear from the USCIS soon....