USCIS Approval!

Hooray! We received our USCIS approval which was the last piece of our dossier. We are going to send that off to be apostilled and then we can mail our whole dossier (every single paper we have collected and worked on since AUGUST) to our agency on the East Coast. Prayers in advance that our dossier safely makes it to its destination please.

We have been asked a few times how the twins will affect the adoption timeline. Basically we will not be getting a referral until after the twins are born. We will need to update our home study to show we are stable with the new little additions. This is done when the twins are between 3 and 6 months old. After the home study update is complete, we can be taken off "hold" and open to receive a referral again. The referral process can take months or even years. After we accept a referral it typically takes 9 months to a year until we are cleared to travel and bring our sweet girl home. SO, to put that simply, we are still a few years away from bringing our little girl home from India. Hopefully baby wrangling twins will help the time pass quickly.

Thank you so much for your continued prayers for our adoption and India. God bless!

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