I’m trying to get an idea of when our dossier might be ready to send to CCAI. The dossier is the group of paperwork that is eventually sent to China, which they will use to match us with a baby. It’s hard to “guesstimate”, but here’s my ideas. We have our last visit with the social worker tomorrow, 5/12. He told us at our last visit that he should have us “rolling” by the following week. I assume that means he’ll have the report for us to review and make any changes. Let’s assume it might take 3 weeks from tomorrow before our final report is sent to USCIS (US immigration). An online friend who is ahead of me in the process helped with my time frame ideas!). That would be 6/2. The Jacksonville USCIS office has been quick lately, so we should be able to be fingerprinted a week later and would hopefully receive the I-171H form a week later on 6/16. This form means that the US immigration office is allowing you to bring a foreign child into the US. At this point, I’ll send our home study report and I-171H form on to be certified in Tallahassee (Randy can hand deliver this) and then on to the courier in Houston for authentication. I’ll allow 2 weeks for that, to be cautious. Making it 6/30 that I hope we can send our completed dossier to our agency, CCAI. If we can do this, it will have taken us a little less than 4 months for dossier preparation.
Any gamblers out there? Â I wonder how well I guessed!?
