Adoption Update

January 13, 2008

Ok now that I have a few minutes I thought I would update a little more on the adoption. We finished our homestudy Friday December 14. Our SW came to our house and inspected it and spoke to Madison. WE PASSED!!!! She then had to write a report approving us for international adoption, and send it to our placing agency, US Department of Citizenship and Immigration Services-USCIS (Dept of Homeland Security), and to us! We are APPROVED for a healthy child or TWINS, of either gender from 0-18 months old from KOREA!!!!

Our placing agency received our homestudy and approved us for international adoption.

AS OF JANUARY 9, 2008 WE ARE OFFICIALLY IN THE WAITING POOL AND ARE NUMBER 8 ON THE LIST FOR A LITTLE BOY!!!! (NUMBER 30+ ON THE LIST FOR A GIRL-SO CHANCES ARE WE WILL GET A BOY, AND THATS FINE WITH US!!) The lady in charge of Korea said we now just sit back and wait- they will call us when we are matched probably in about 1 to 2 MONTHS!!!! (alot sooner then we thought-although it does have the potential to get longer)

When we are matched (get our referral) we will get a picture along with any background information that's available, and a medical report. The baby will be approximately 5-6 months old. We then review it and have a doctor review it and send in our acceptance letter. (The only way you can turn down a referral is for a medical problem that you aren't comfortable with.)

We then fill out more paperwork and wait for the travel call about 3 months later. The baby will be about 9 months old.

We are now waiting to get fingerprinted for Dept of Homeland Security so that they too can approve us, this process takes about 8 weeks from the time you are fingerprinted-we haven't yet.