Waiting For Some Good Mail

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.

Now we are just waiting to hear back from ICAB(the Philippine Adoption Board) to see if we have their official approval to adopt from their country.  I’m not expecting to hear anything from them until after Christmas, but we’ll see.