This morning Jer and I had a doctor appointment to get our vaccinations started for travel, since the HepA series is 6 months in between shots. In addition to the HepA, we got the dTap and a prescription for typhoid. Africa here we come!
Today we also got our monthly update from AGCI. We are #74 on the waitlist for January! Hoping to see some good jumps on the waitlist this spring!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
January 4, 2011
I was given 3 bags overflowing with size 2T little girls clothes/shoes today from a friend whose daughter has outgrown them. It was like Christmas! So strange though to walk into the house with pink and even stranger to hang a few of them up in the closet. Though still a ways a way, I was picturing our daughter in them, thinking about her and longing to meet her.
December 30, 2010
Jer and I headed up to Naperville for our USCIS fingerprinting today! We were up at 4:30 am and on the road by 5:15 am. Amazingly we arrived for our 8:00 am appointment and were finished by 8:10 am! While the office looked a lot like any other government facility, the efficiency and friendliness of the employees was surprising!
Ironically after arriving back home we had received an email from our case manager from AGCI stating the following:
"The Ethiopian government is now requiring a family’s Favorable Determination Letter (FDL) to be included in the authenticated dossier. For those new to this term, this is your family’s immigration pre-approval issued by USCIS and instructions for obtaining this document are in Section 6 of the dossier packet. As you know, until now families have been able to complete their dossier, move to the official waiting stage, and work to obtain immigration pre-approval during the wait. However, effective January 1, 2011, families whose dossier has not been submitted to AGCI for review will be required to obtain immigration pre-approval through the I-600A process prior to dossier submission. Many other agencies working in Ethiopia have been requiring this already and AGCI previously worked under this model. In the overall scheme of your adoption process, we are not anticipating it will change your wait time."
So thankfully this should not effect our waitlist status. Our FDL is due to arrive within 3 months. Once that is sent off to AGCI we will be ready to receive a referral!
Ironically after arriving back home we had received an email from our case manager from AGCI stating the following:
"The Ethiopian government is now requiring a family’s Favorable Determination Letter (FDL) to be included in the authenticated dossier. For those new to this term, this is your family’s immigration pre-approval issued by USCIS and instructions for obtaining this document are in Section 6 of the dossier packet. As you know, until now families have been able to complete their dossier, move to the official waiting stage, and work to obtain immigration pre-approval during the wait. However, effective January 1, 2011, families whose dossier has not been submitted to AGCI for review will be required to obtain immigration pre-approval through the I-600A process prior to dossier submission. Many other agencies working in Ethiopia have been requiring this already and AGCI previously worked under this model. In the overall scheme of your adoption process, we are not anticipating it will change your wait time."
So thankfully this should not effect our waitlist status. Our FDL is due to arrive within 3 months. Once that is sent off to AGCI we will be ready to receive a referral!
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