Our Home Study is Finished!

Today we received the notarized copies of our home study! The last few weeks since our interview were because we had to wait for our social worker to write up the report, we reviewed it, then she sent it to our placing agency for their review. Then finally, when everyone was in agreement that it met all requirements, they had it notarized and officialized and all that. So the next step is to mail in our I-800A, which is our application to the US Government to be allowed to adopt a child from a convention country. ("Convention country" refers to those countries which are part of the Hague Convention and agree to follow certain procedures for inter-country adoptions.)

Last time it took USCIS about 2 months to approve our application, so hopefully by Thanksgiving we'll have official permission to adopt again!