USCIS FINGER PRINTING COMPLETE

We completed our USCIS finger printing today!  Yay!  one more step closer.

And sure enough, my prints would not read.   After 15 minutes of trying the tech said, "take this lotion, rub lightly on your fingertips and then scrape it off with a credit card."

Steve was in and out in less than 5 minutes.   So I went in again, and 20 minutes later we had an approved reading on my fingers.   geez!!

I have specific instructions if/when we return in 15 months, use Corn Huskers lotion and lay off the hand sanitizer.  

We did it!

So, I'm sorry if I whined a little or a lot in my last post.  I can get a little emotional at times.  

To think of All the work we have put into our dossier, (must be compared to getting a MBA) and having one sentence not correct, placing us on hold.  Not knowing if we still had our potential number.  I have been a mess.  Did I mention I'm a bit of a perfectionist.   I don't handle that kind of rejection well.  So pressing on our medical reports were corrected, sent out over night mail, and .........

It's official.  Our dossier is complete!  All papers are signed, sealed, and Approved!!!
We are on the wait list!

Praise Jesus!     We are number.............

Can you believe it!  It did not change!    Woohoo!

This means we will still have to wait around 1 to 1 1/2 years to meet our little Thai button.  Holt has referrals every March, June, September, and December.  Gradually our number will decrease depending on the amount of children placed for adoption.  Placing us closer to meeting our babe.


What can you do?
Pray for our family as we wait.  Pray for our friends' adoptions.  Pray for our child's birth mother.
Pray for our little Thai button.

A little update

I don't know if anyone actually follows our blog, but in case you do, I feel I need to update it.  If you noticed my last blog changed,  I thought we were number 14 on the wait list.  When I turned in our dossier I thought we were done.  Nothing else could go wrong.  We had a number!    So our person at Holt said we tentatively, could be 14 on the wait list.    Of course I am ecstatic. I literally wait 2 seconds to tell my family and a few friends.   I even posted it on the group I follow......
Then we get the email our dossier is not accepted.  Our medical report did not specifically state we were free from HIV and TB!           WHAT!

Luckily we just need to add the additional letter.   Thank The Lord we do not have to send our entire dossier back to the Secretary of State and Thai Embassay.
But our luck strikes again. Our dr is out that week so we have to wait until the next week to be tested, with results taking up to 10 days.    So here we are waiting again.

Waiting

Waiting

WAITING

I talked to our person at Holt today,  just to give her a heads up of what was going on.  And ya know I had to ask if we were still looking at number 14, and she couldn't give me an answer, just somewhere around there.     My heart is a little heavy today.

I knew our adoption adventure would be full of obstacles and waiting,   I also thought now would be the only time frame we could control.   Boy O Boy was I ever wrong.  God has a plan.  I keep telling myself this.  He is in control, only HIM.   Our child just might not be number14.  Only God knows.