Our Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition has been approved - for the third time in our nearly three year wait - resulting in our receipt of the I-171H document. The I-171H from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) indicates we are "able to furnish proper care to an orphan" and that we've been approved for one child up to 18 months old, either boy or girl (all that is exactly what we asked for), and the embassy in Guangzhou, China has been notified. The approval is only valid for 18 months, and the fingerprint checks that are also required are only valid for 15 months, and, as many of you know, we started this process many moons ago; i.e., nearly 36 months ago.
We are still waiting to hear how far the CCAA got this past month in matching applications with children. There was talk that the H1N1 virus may be holding up the release, but hopeful me awaits rumors next week.
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Hello!!! How are you? Just wanted to share with you about our last homestudy. I had the oddest feeling in Jan of this year about our referral and while doing out update i asked that it be changed to that we were prepared to care for a child up to the age of 24 months. Good thing I did as Ella was 18 months when referred and almost 20 months by the time we got home 2 weeks ago. If I had not done that we would have had to pay for an updated homestudy at the last minute. Most of the children referred that month were around a year old but there were couples younger than us that did get older children even then out Ella. You just never know ...oh and yes we also requested in our dossier as young as possible.
Ella is the perfect fit for our family!!
Can't wait to meet you both
Jamie Brooks
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