My Passport is Here!

We paid the extra money to get my passport expedited, and it paid off! We mailed in on July 10, so it took just over a week. We didn't want to be waiting on it since passport processing is taking so long right now. One more thing checked off! (Jason didn't have to renew his passport. It's good for another year, I think, so we will need to do that eventually).

I-600a Filed

We received a letter from USCIS saying that our filing date was July 18. We'll go get our fingerprints done in Indianapolis on August 8. This will be our 3rd and final set of fingerprints we need done for the home study.

2nd Home Study Visit

We were able to give Delyn (our social worker) a lot of papers at our second meeting tonight! We have a lot checked off our to-do list, which is a great feeling! The meeting went really well. This time we talked a lot about our family history and our marriage. Spending so much time talking about the adoption and doing paperwork makes me so anxious to have our daughter home!

First Home Study Visit

Our first home study visit went really well. Our social worker is such a wonderful lady and is also adopting from Vietnam. We went over the paperwork and talked about what other things to do before our next meeting. She answered many of our questions. Now we have a lot to get busy on!

Contract Mailed!

Today we mailed our home study agreement and contract to CHI. After about a month of prayer and research, we have decided to stay with CHI, despite the long wait. We know without a doubt that it is an ethical agency, and they are doing a lot of humanitarian work in Vietnam. We are not looking forward to the wait, but we know we are going with a reputable agency.

Application

Our application to Children's Hope has been approved! We have just begun the long process towards finding our daughter. We can't wait to get everything together and get on the waiting list.

Adoption Meeting

Today we went to an informational meeting about Children's Hope in Bloomington. We were very impressed with the agency. They brought in two families who had adopted recently, and they went on and on about how great Children's Hope is about helping you in country. I got tears in my eyes hearing their stories, and my heart yearns to start our adoption. We are pretty sure we will go with CHI. Out of the 140 adoptions in Vietnam last year, CHI had 60 of them. They have a great presence in Vietnam and are a Christian, ethical agency.