Submitted for Exit Permit

Our week has been a crazy one.  At the end of last week some families were told they would need full battery psychological testing done.  The Korean courts were going to require this before approvals.  We hoped it would not be true as it seemed the list of test they were asking us to have were not easy to find and were very costly but alas early this week we got the email from our agency and ask we get the test done ASAP.

It has been a stressful week.  More money shelled out having trying to find a psychologist and get an appointment and make arrangements for my daycare etc, but it ended AWESOME.

Yesterday I was luck enough to have all the daycare kids head home a little early so I rushed off to the YMCA so I could meet Jeff and Carrot at her swim lessons.  I miss this every week because I am still working.   I got home and checked my e-mail to see if we had gotten an appointment for the test and low and behold there was an e-mail from our agency.

We had been submitted for EP......A MONTH AGO on February 20th.  I couldn't believe it.  We were submitted only 1 month after referral and I had already been waiting for a month for EP approval and we didn't even know it.

This is pretty awesome news.  Generally EP approvals come in about 2 months but things have been a little slow lately.

So what is next for us.  Well we get EP approval and then are submitted to court and then our court date.  It all seems too good to be true.

If things stay on course (which they never do) we should for sure be there in the summer.  Hoping and praying this happens.

Legals Arrived!!!!

Our Legals arrived from Korea today and are being sent off to USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services)

Legals are documents that come from Korea to our U.S. agency that transfer guardianship of our little guy to our U.S. agency.  

We waited about 7 weeks for legals.   The timing seems to vary quite a bit from just a week or two to a few months.  I am glad I can stop stalking my e-mail for a while.

Next we have to wait for our USCIS officer to process our I-600 form.  This form is for non-Hague countries and classifies an orphan that will be adopted by a U.S. citizen as an immediate relative to the petitioner so the child is allowed to enter the United States.

Celebrating first step complete and one step closer to our little guy!

Snow Day!

Yesterday we had a snow day but I ended up with no daycare kids so we had a fun day off and went sledding.  Might be our last time this season....I SURE HOPE SO.

Carrot and daddy in their camo

 John preparing for a snowy ride.

A Jeff and John run

Fun times!!!!  Have to enjoy our big kids activities before our little guys comes.