One Step Closer

We haven't had much "adoption activity" lately. We are in the USCIS stage, so we had been waiting to receive a fingerprinting appointment, all the while working on our dossier. We had our fingerprinting appointment this morning, so we expect to receive our USCIS approval within 2-4 weeks. At that point, we would be able to get our dossier ready to send, provided it is complete.

This bad boy is filled with dossier documents!

Our dossier is almost there! We are still waiting on a few personal reference letters. Other than that, we just need to compile and print 10-20 photos. These should be of us, our home and family, the neighborhood, etc. When we have everything compiled, our "dossier specialist" at BCS will review everything to make sure it is perfect. Then our caseworker will notarize everything as we sign it and she will also send everything to be state sealed. I have no idea how long they take to complete that. After that, it will be sent to South Africa!!

Then we fund-raise like crazy and wait for the SA government to approve a match with a little one :)