Sigh of Relief

Today is our 20th wedding anniversary AND the date that our home study left the country to get us registered in Ukraine!  YEA!

We heard from the agency that our documents arrived.  Then later in the day we heard that they were on their way to Ukraine.  Hopefully we won't have much (if any) delay due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland.

From here, the process (as I understand it) is:

• Documents arrive in Ukraine
• Our facilitator has the documents translated
• Our facilitator files the documents with the SDA
• We get a date for submission of our full dossier

This should take a couple of weeks.  So hopefully sometime in early to mid-May we will have our dossier submission date (sometime in the fall).  We are told that our travel date should be about 4-6 weeks after dossier submission.  Things change, so that's just an estimate.

Also today I mailed our I600-A to USCIS.  That is the application to bring a foreign-born orphan into the US.  Once that application is processed, we will receive an appointment to have our fingerprints taken.  They will do a background check, request additional information if necessary, and then give us permission to proceed.

So now we are back to waiting. . . .