Well the good news is that I found out that we do not need to get the NBI clearance done. I emailed the program director for the Philippines at our adoption agency and asked her about it. She said that there is no child abuse registry in the Philippines and that they are trying to get ICAB to write a letter stating such to attach to everyone’s home study that needs the Philippines clearance. The bad news is that they are having a difficult time getting ICAB to write this letter and without it USCIS will not accept our application. She told me they will get the letter but she has no idea when. We were told that we can go ahead and finish our home study once all of our other clearances come back and then just have our social worker write in the home study that we have verbal confirmation from ICAB that no such registry exists and that a letter will be coming. They think this will be good enough to be able to submit our I-800a and get our appointment for fingerprinting in Yakima. Hopefully by then they will have gotten the letter and everyone will be happy.
I am just so relieved that we will not need to do the NBI clearance. That was turning into such a nightmare and would have set us back who knows how long-a couple of months at least. We will be submitting our dossier this week for our adoption agency to look over to make sure we have everything we need and that it is all correct. They will then have to wait until our home study is finished to send it on to the Philippines. It looks like now that might just be a couple of weeks. Unless something major happens between now and then, hopefully the next time I post it will be to say that our home study is finished.
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