After 21 days we finally received our dossier back from US Pack (the courier service that walked our dossier through certification at the US Dept of State and Thai Embassy in Washington D.C.)! We received it from FedEx yesterday morning so I quickly gathered everything together to mail it off to Holt, our adoption agency in OR. We had to include 2 copies of the dossier, passport photos, family photos, and the US processing fee. I got everything together and overnighted the package. Holt emailed me this morning letting me know they received the package and will be reviewing it soon. She said they will be getting back to us on Tues or Wed of next week. So once they review it and hopefully approve it we will be on the waiting list!! Holt did say though that we will not be able to be matched with a child until our 3 year wedding anniversary in January. We knew this would be the case since this is a Thailand requirement but we started the process anyway since it takes a while to get everything submitted. They said we will still work our way up the waiting list but they would just skip over us until January IF we were to get to the top of the list by then (but there is a good chance that we wouldn't by January anyway) But who knows... It is totally in God's timing anyway!
For the I800A, we are still waiting for approval. We did receive our fingerprint appointment which is scheduled for June 9th at 2pm in Atlanta! So once we have this done hopefully it won't take too much longer for approval. I did ask Holt if this would delay us from getting on the waiting list and she said no. It is common that families get the dossier submitted before I800A approval. I was relieved because I thought this would hold us up!
Everything is moving forward and we are so, so excited and feel very blessed to be this far along! Thank you for all of your prayers! We will be keeping you updated!
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