Home Study Interviews are Complete!
Sorry it's been so long, but here's a quick recap of what's been going on in the process. As you know, we had to get physicals, which we did a few weeks ago. I had to get a new letter from one of my doctors because they put a thyroid condition on the letter the agency didn't want on there. So, we got the new letter just a couple days after it was requested.
Next, we started our home study. This was broken into 4 visits, 1 together, 2 individual interviews and 1 more together. Fortunately, our social worker has a sense of humor, so they really were quite fun. I was expecting some dry, very serious meetings where laughing and joking isn't allowed, but I was wrong. We had a good time in the interviews.
We did the interviews in about a 4 week period. The first 3 in 2 weeks (the two individual interviews the same time) and the final interview this last weekend.
Some other things have happened as well. We now have our employment verification letters, adoption petition and financial statement written as well. And thanks to my mother-in-law, who took a trip to the "big" city of Lansing Michigan we have my wife's birth certificate as well (a bunch of copies) already certified by the Michigan Secretary of State. Had it not been for her and her friend's big adventure, we would have had to wait for about 4 weeks to get this document, so we'd probably have 2 more weeks to wait!
We've also already received our fingerprint invitation from immigration, so we can go get our fingerprints done. We won't do that YET, because they're only good for a certain length of time so we'll wait until we're closer to having the dossier completed.
Hopefully things will start moving faster for a bit, then it'll be hurry up and wait, but in the end, it will all be worth it.
Next, we started our home study. This was broken into 4 visits, 1 together, 2 individual interviews and 1 more together. Fortunately, our social worker has a sense of humor, so they really were quite fun. I was expecting some dry, very serious meetings where laughing and joking isn't allowed, but I was wrong. We had a good time in the interviews.
We did the interviews in about a 4 week period. The first 3 in 2 weeks (the two individual interviews the same time) and the final interview this last weekend.
Some other things have happened as well. We now have our employment verification letters, adoption petition and financial statement written as well. And thanks to my mother-in-law, who took a trip to the "big" city of Lansing Michigan we have my wife's birth certificate as well (a bunch of copies) already certified by the Michigan Secretary of State. Had it not been for her and her friend's big adventure, we would have had to wait for about 4 weeks to get this document, so we'd probably have 2 more weeks to wait!
We've also already received our fingerprint invitation from immigration, so we can go get our fingerprints done. We won't do that YET, because they're only good for a certain length of time so we'll wait until we're closer to having the dossier completed.
Hopefully things will start moving faster for a bit, then it'll be hurry up and wait, but in the end, it will all be worth it.

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AMEN to that !!!
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