Tomorrow we send in our I600A form. (Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition) In simple terms this is USCIS (immigration) saying it is ok for us to bring home an orphan.
There is no reason this should not go through, but I am slightly terrified! So please cross your fingers, say a prayer, whatever it is that you do and hope that this goes through with no problems. Relying on a government agency to take care of anything these days worries me. We expect it to take 1-3 months to receive our 171H (approval form).
FYI: We had to have our homestudy changed a little. There is a question on the I600A that is very important to an adoptive parent: Do you plan to adopt more than one child? If so, how many?
This seems simple, right. Wrong. If we say one child then that is it. We can not adopt another child on this first journey. So if we arrive in Africa and find out our child has a brother or sister up for adoption we can not bring them home. If we say yes then we have the right to bring home a sibling. We put yes and listed 2. At this point we are planning for one child. But the last thing I want to is leave Africa feeling like we have left one of our children there.
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