We are well on our way with the first of three big paperwork phases…the home study. The home study is done to educate and prepare, as well as evaluate, the adoptive family. A social worker from Dallas is scheduled to come on Saturday, June 5th to spend three hours getting to know us. After her visit, it should take about two weeks for her to complete the home study report. Then we can move on to the next step.
We are already getting paper work together for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), but we’ll need a notarized copy of the home study to send in with that so we have to wait until it is finished before proceeding. Our goal is to have everything for the second phase mailed by the 4th of July. Supposedly USCIS approval can take one to six months, so we are already praying it will be closer to the one month side.
The final phase will be for us to complete the dossier (pronounced doss-see-ay), which contains the official papers that get sent to Ethiopia, translated, and then given to the Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MOWA) within the government. The dossier includes, among other things, both a notarized copy of the home study as well as the forms from the USCIS, which explains why it is the last step.
We are hoping to get everything on our end finished as quickly as possible. We’ll keep you posted!
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