Time frame

Some of you have been asking where things are in the timeline. We don't have dates we can put on anything yet, but here's where we are:

• we've submitted our commitment documents, and they've been accepted. 

• we're well on our way to having our home study completed - just waiting on background checks to be returned - everything else is done

• once we have the completed home study, we can submit it with our I800-A application to the USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services)
• once we get back approval on our I800-A, we can submit that along with the rest of our dossier (fancy name for all of the documents we need to collect and send) to the Bulgarian Minister of Justice
• when our dossier is approved by the MOJ, we will receive our invitation to travel for trip #1 (this is the point at which B will be informed that she has an interested family) 
•  after trip #1 we can submit our I800 to USCIS, and upon approval of that, we can send final documents to Bulgaria to allow them to finalize the adoptions
• once the adoptions are finalized, we will be given travel dates for trip #2 when we get to go pick up our girls and bring them home 

We're still hoping that we'll have the girls home before Christmas - maybe even sometime in November. There are many variables along the way, and plenty of points like where we're at now where we're just waiting for various agencies to process our paperwork.