Flurry of paperwork and a few definitions

Right now we are at the tail-end of a ton of paperwork....LOTS of paperwork. Once we get through all this paperwork and our medicals, we will be able to send our completed home study off to USCIS to be prayerfully approved, then we'll go get our FBI fingerprints and once those come back we'll be able to send in our dossier to EE. THEN, we wait for our court and travel date to EE...YEAH! Seems like I'm leaving out a kigillian steps in there but at least we can start to see the light at the end of this tunnel. We are beyond excited and ready to bring our little man home. He needs us and we need him!


For those wanting to know:


USCIS is:


United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is a bureau of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It performs many administrative functions formerly carried out by the legacy United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which was part of the Department of Justice. The stated priorities of the USCIS are to promote national security, to eliminate immigration case backlogs, and to improve customer services. The Bureau is headed by a director who reports directly to the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security. USCIS was formerly and briefly named the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS), before becoming USCIS.


Dossier is:


(dôs e a)


1. A collection of papers, especially legal and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.




EE is:


Eastern Europe is the area our little man is from. We have been instructed not to say publicly exactly what country he is from until he is legally ours. So, for now, we put EE.