We had our last homestudy last night.Our social worker was awesome but yet at the same time it was extremely unnerving to have someone have the power to make the decision that can alter the course of so many lives.The process is extremely invasive. The paperwork to even begin a homestudy is amazing. The average time to complete a homestudy is 4 months so we are doing pretty good. O.k here is the timeline......
Jan 20 2008-Scott hears the call to adopt. We thought we were going to adopt in Kazakhstan
Jan ?-contact Villa Hope to do homestudy
Jan?-first homestudy at Villa Hope signed a TON of paper
Jan. 22- went to a meeting with our agency and met a family who adopted from Russia and felt God leading us to Russia. We started gathering paper,birth certiuficates, marriage cert, finiciaL STATEMENTS, LETTERS OF RECOMENDATION, MEDICAL EXAM TO SHOW WE ARE HEALTHY AND NOT CRAZY, A MEDICAL EXAM FOR OUR DOG!,LETTERS FROM C.P.A , wrote a life story about our childhood ,ECT...
Jan 29- We got our fingerprints done at Mountain Brook Police Station (the officer scolded me because I told Gray he was going to be put in jail if he did not stop standing on the chair!!)
The past week 2 meetings in our home looking in childrens rooms, asking basically everything!!!!!I will write more about it tomorrow!!!!We are praying daily for God to protect Kati until we can bring her home!!!!!!!Our next move is sending off more fingerprints to the immigration office. They will issue us a form that will make Kati a U.S.A citizen the moment our plane touches down on U.S soil!! That blows us away.After this the dossier will be sent to Russia for translation and then the wait.........edit
Much love to the whole clan and little Kati. You are prayed for each day.
Laura
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Posted by: Laura on April 22, 2008 at 02:34 P.M.