Today we got the long awaited actual fingerprint notices. We are to appear at the fingerprinting office in Charlotte at 2:30pm on July 28th. The notice stated that we could expect our USCIS approval (I 171 H) by late August or September, which is much sooner than either of us expected based on recent info. The USCIS website currently states that they are processing I 600 A applications dated March 26, 2007 (ours was dated May 11, 2007). We are very excited.
Today I took the first round of our dossier paperwork (our FBI clearance packets, our letter to the Ethiopian government, two letters of recommendation, our physicals, letters from our physicians, our dossier financial form, Sean's employment letter, a letter confirming our health and life insurance, our birth certificates, and our marriage certificate) to the NC Secretary of State to be authenticated. I am supposed to be able to pick it up tomorrow after 11 am. I also mailed off my employment letter and our "precious" bank letter (5 rounds before we got it approved) to the Virginia Secretary of State. We anticipate that our home study will be completed soon. We have completed all of the paperwork that we can at this point and will just have to wait for our home study, passports, and I 171 H to complete our dossier. After that, we send everything to our agency, it then goes to the US State Department, and then it is off to Ethiopia. Then, the real wait begins.
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how exciting! we are a gladney family as well and are at the exact same point in this process as you! (although we are still waiting for our fingerprinting appts) isnt it wonerfull when you feel like youre actualy making progress?!
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