GREAT NEWS!

Oh how the Lord has provided...

So a few bits of business before the good news. We sent off our dossier last Friday as I had hoped and it made it to Portland safe and sound on Monday. We have three corrections to make, but they should be relatively easy to take care of. So once those are corrected it will be off to D.C. to be authenticated. Next is our USCIS, we heard from them yesterday and they said we needed to send in a copy of our marriage cert. which I didn't realize. So we sent that off today and it should be there tomorrow. This is good news because it means they are processing our file. So all this is good news, but the best news of all is...

As soon as we get our paperwork corrections done (hopefully this week) we get to be put on the waiting list! This was a huge surprise for us since we were expecting to have to wait several more months until we got our FDL letter back from USCIS. Our agency decided that since their Ethiopia program has grown there is enough time between submitting of a dossier and referral time that they can put us on the list right away and we wont really risk not having approval on time. For those of you not familiar with the process this is still probably confusing, but over all it just means we will get our little guy referred to us much more quickly now.