I know I haven’t updated here for a long time, but not much has been going on except for waiting and waiting and more waiting. This week, after 90 days of waiting, we received our I-800a approval in the mail last Friday. This is basically a pre-approval from the US Immigration saying that we will be allowed to bring a child into this country when the time comes. Once we get our referral we will have to file an I-800 form which will give us our actual approval to bring our child home. I guess they do the pre-approval to speed up the process for families once they get their referral. I guess we’ll see if this is really the case.
We were surprised that we did not need any additional information for our I-800a to be approved. Our social worker kept telling us that they haven’t approved any on the first try. I guess that means that something actually went right for us. I guess miracles really do happen. We thought for sure that they would ask for Jason’s NBI clearance. We were also told that we may need a letter from Jason’s counselor. Maybe now that they have been working through so many of these forms, they are starting to get a little more relaxed about things. Whatever the reason, we are very happy.
