Today’s adoption news is BIG news. Dan received an email this morning that our immigration paperwork had been approved and he was allowed to pick up the official form from the USCIS office this afternoon. That’s the FINAL U.S. approval we’ve been waiting for. What happens next? On Friday he will take our documents to Tallahassee to be apostilled and then ship them to Ukraine. That should allow our translator plenty of time to translate the documents and submit them to Ukraine’s State Department of Adoptions (SDA) on our submission date of October 27th. At that time they will review our file and hopefully issue an invitation to come to Ukraine… or tell us something needs to be corrected, updated, etc. Please keep all of us in your prayers as we wait on God’s timing and direction.
A note to other families in this process... I read on someone else's blog how after all their waiting the actual I-171H form was not what they expected. She was so right! For all its importance and the process required, it deserves some sort of special paper... or at least a very official signature. :)
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Congratulations! You will be here in Ukraine before you know it! Remember to pack as light as possible. Something we learned since we've been here, dressing up for the SDA appointment, not so important. It's pretty informal really. But do bring something nice for court. Plenty of turtle necks, scarves and such work well. Praying for your journey,
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