We received our fingerprinting appointment!

Yesterday was a good day!

Our friend Jahir is visiting us from Mexico; we took him to visit a few iconic places in Kentucky and ended the day with a delicious homemade Mexican feast complete with some of our closest friends.

The day started with us receiving our fingerprinting appointment at USCIS (via snail mail). Our appointment is scheduled for October 15th in Cincinnati, OH (only 3 weeks away!). Some of you may wonder why we are so excited about getting our fingerprints taken. The reason is, once we submit our fingerprints a final FBI background check will be ran on us, and we will be cleared by USCIS to adopt from Ethiopia!

The rumor is that we may have to wait up to 60 days after our fingerprints are submitted to get the final paperwork needed from USCIS to submit our Dossier. What is a Dossier? A Dossier is a packet comprised of all the forms necessary to complete an international adoption. Most Dossiers require birth and marriage certificates, background check clearances, fingerprint clearances, approved home study, employee letters, medical evaluations, photos, etc. Our Dossier will be sent to Ethiopia, translated into Amharic (the official language of Ethiopia), and then submitted to the Ethiopian government.

After our Dossier is complete and mailed to Ethiopia; we can officially celebrate because our long wait to receive our referral phone call and see our daughter for the very first time (via internet) will begin!