We (finally) got the news that our petition to the Ministry of Justice in Allen's country has been approved!! We are officially going to be his Momma and Daddy! Yaaaaayyyyy!
I wish I could say that was the last step and we could bring him home now, but that was really just the first step. It means that he has been removed from the list of children available for adoption and is "ours" but we still have a ways to go.
The next step will be sending in our dossier to the government. This includes our I800A from the USCIS that shows that we have been approved to adopt internationally, our home study, multiple background checks, letters of employment and more. Once the dossier is reviewed we will receive our court date and can travel for our first trip to meet Allen and do the court proceedings to initiate the adoption. Then we will have to wait about 2 months to travel back to Eastern Europe to finalize the adoption, get his visa and bring him home.
It is a long road but we have taken one huge step!
Hip-hip-hooray! Fantastic news! One big step on the way to bring him home!
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