A good mail day

There is news today!

I picked up the mail today and right on top was something to me from the FBI - and beneath it one for Matt. Yay! We're both verified as having nothing on our records. These two letters are one of the significant pieces of the dossier.

Even more exciting to me was that under those two letters was our I-800-A approval letter from US Immigrations (USCIS)!!! We are officially approved to bring an adopted child into the United States! This is the piece of the dossier that we were planning on having to wait until the end of March to receive!! Getting it today means that our tentative timeline is moved up almost two months. We're now looking at potentially being able to travel sometime in March instead of mid to late April.

So this week is "finish up the dossier week." We were able to get out yet this afternoon to the post office and mail our FBI letters to Washington, DC to be apostilled. Our adoption agency recommended a walk-in service where instead of mailing our items directly to the State Department, we mail them to the service who will walk them in the next day and then mail them back to us. Walk ins apparently take priority over mail-ins, so we could get those back by the end of this week.

And in the meantime I have a small stack of papers to be notarized, and then to take downtown to be apostilled and then I can bundle them all up and send them across the ocean to be translated and approved by the Ministry of Justice in K's country, and once they give THEIR approval, we will be able to travel to meet him and spend some time with him!!!

Lots of exciting things all in one day.