Final Paperwork - Take 2

I should have known that nothing would go as planned with this final set of paperwork! Nothing has been easy so far, so why would it start now? ;-)

We sent in our I-800 to get the final approval for A.J.'s visa and within a week of it being received we got a phone call from our officer telling us that she needed the wording on our home study to be changed... again. I called our social worker that same day to ask her to make the needed changes and found out she was out of town. Of course! Every other piece of paperwork has been delayed, why not this one too? I was so incredibly frustrated that I wanted to cry. So it took us two weeks to get the home study updated and the new request for our USCIS paperwork is on its way. And the best part of all of that? It cost us $360 to file the supplemental paperwork to make the changes that were requested. Grrrr....

As we were waiting for the USCIS paperwork we were also working on getting our medical clearances updated by our physician. He is a very good doctor, but he and his office staff apparently flunked "Paperwork 101" because we had to go back to his office three separate times to get them to re-do the paperwork because they had filled it out incorrectly. Apparently I do not have anything else to do except drive to the doctor's office repeatedly. Grrr....

The good news is that our officer at USCIS is very kind and obviously wants to get us our approval as quickly as possible. She could have just waited for the written request to make its way to us in a week or so, but she took the time to call us, let us know what was needed, and give us specific information about making the updated home study meet the requirements. I really believe that she will be calling us as soon as she receives our updated paperwork to let us know that we have been approved and that our Article 5 letter is on its way to the embassy.

Praying that there will not need to be a Final Paperwork Take 3! :-)

Hang in there little man. Momma and Daddy will be there soon.