We received the completed draft of our homestudy today! Hooray! Thanks to our great social worker and all of the Dillon staff - you guys are the best! They managed to get everything finished for us before we head out on our vacation - an extra treat.
For our friends and family not in the middle of the adoption experience, the homestudy is a critical piece of the puzzle. The homestudy report is done by a licensed social worker, who officially approves us as adoption applicants. This report goes to Vietnam along with copies of a lot of other official paperwork to describe us as adoptive parents to the Vietnamese government. It also is used here by the US Department of Immigration as official clearance to allow us to get a Visa for our new child. (The Visa officially allows us to leave Vietnam and return to the United States with our child.)
So, the moral of the story is that our homestudy unlocks the doors to the next big phase of our adoption process. We are thrilled to be moving that way! Funny, but I've never been so excited to be allowed to fill out more bureaucratic forms! :)
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Yippee for homestudies! Congrats on this big step!
Congratulations on completing your homestudy. Your hydrangeas (below) are beautiful, by the way. That is my favorite flower.
Congrats! Now on to more paper chasing!!!!
Great news!!!
Hooray! That's such a major feat! Congrats!
Congrats on jumping this hurdle!! You are on your way now!! :) Thanks also for stopping by the blog to leave such a sweet comment...I'm glad we can give out a few smiles in this dreary weather we have been having!! AND we REALLY must get together sometime soon! E-mail me! ksala@cox.net!
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