Keep moving forward

Our SW emailed me to make sure of changes for our homestudy on Monday. I made sure everything was correct and she submitted it for review with our agency. Now we wait for them to approve it and then we will get a certificate of approval. Then we can file our I-800A. I guess I better hurry and get if filled out. I've slacked off doing it since its quite a few pages and I thought we would be waiting for clearances. My DH Hawaii clearance came back on Monday so we are good to go.

Good News

Our SW emailed me Thursday night. She got all but one clearance back. The California one came back in record time. She was even amazed. She set up an interview for yesterday so we might have to do one more. I think our agency said we only needed one more but our SW is checking to make sure. Once we get the other clearance back from Hawaii then we can file our I-800A application since our SW will have our homestudy finished. All she is waiting for is the clearance. I guess I better get the application filled out. I was thinking I had more time but I guess I don't.

So I'm doing a little bit of celebrating since we have some movement instead of being in limbo for so long.

I'm behind in posting. It looks like we are not going to get our I-171H renewal. We talked to our senators office and tried to get a meeting with our local USCIS office. They wouldn't even meet with us. I was tired of all the back and forth emails. They won't talk to us so that's why we got the senators office involved. They came back and said we didn't get our homestudy in on time....I'm tired of fighting with them, I'm tired of it all but I guess we have to move on.

So it looks like we are going to have to start the I-800 process. We've already contacted our SW and she has started our background checks again and we sent the paperwork to get our child abuse clearances. DH had 2 besides our state so it could be a while since one is CA. I've heard it can take up to 30 days to get the clearance from there. It's been sent in so hopefully we will get it back soon. If we can hurry and get everything back we won't have to start everything over since it will be within 6 months since we did our last home study.