Fingerprinted

We were fingerprinted on Friday (May 26th). It was the coolest thing (well, OK, not the coolest thing) - but pretty darn cool none-the-less! J and I met at the INS Application Support Center at 10:00 am - we were out of there by 10:25 am. It went fast and smooth. We were under the impression they would use the black ink and paper, but NO - it was way cooler!! They wet down our fingers with a sterile cloth and water and set our fingers on a little screen. Then the computer digitized our prints on the computer screen. The computer would analyze the print and let us know if the print was good enough. It really was neat...they took a print of each of our hands first and then one finger at a time. Now, as soon as our homestudy is ready we will submit that and our fingerprints with our I-600A. The FBI will then clear us and we will get our I-171H...not sure what all this means, but ultimately it is getting us closer to A and that is all that matters.

We heard from Suzanne Stott today about out background clearances...we passed, neither one of us are criminals or a threat to society - whew! She sent our information over to Stephanie Williams who will be our social worker who will do our home study. She called tonight to set up our first meeting (this will be one of four over the entire process - two before the adoption and two after the adoption is complete). She is coming on Monday (June 5th) at 3:00 pm. I have all of our paperwork ready for the home study (as far as I know). She said it will take her a little bit of time - it will probably end up being about 11 pages. We told E and G tonight that we are going to adopt - you should have seen E's face! Talk about a smile! He told me he wished that it wouldn't take so long. J and I realized that he will be in the 4th grade by the time A comes home and G will be in the 1st grade. Seems like forever away! (It kind of is...)