I-800 A

Well, today is a huge day. We're finally mailing off our I-800 A application to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. The I-800 A is an "Application for Determination of Suitability to Adopt a Child from a Convention Country". This form has to be accompanied by our completed Home Study....this document's completion has been delayed a bit longer than I would have liked so we're SO grateful to say that process is behind us (for now). The approval of this I-800 A application allows our dossier to be complete and mailed to PRC. It's currently taking up to 90 days to receive approval but many families have received them in 60-70 days. We're really hoping for that!! Now we're concentrating on the final documents for our dossier then I'll take them all to be county certified, then state certified. Once certified, I can send them to AGCI to ship to DC for authentication. We'll then just be waiting on our I-800 A approval which we will expedite through the authentication process and mail to PRC!! Once they log our dossier into their system, we can begin to receive referrals. God really has provided much peace and patience for us. Praise, praise, praise God for His mercy! I know it's the Holy Spirit because my flesh is constantly wanting to rush, rush, rush.