First Homestudy Visit DONE!

YAY! Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The social worker was very nice and asked us a bunch of questions about how we met and why we want to adopt, etc. She took a tour of the house and that was it pretty much. Painless! Our next visit is next week. We have to have 4 visits total. Then she will write up the homestudy, which needs to go to my agency for approval, then to USCIS (Immigration) with the I600A form. Then USCIS asks you to come in for fingerprinting 2 weeks from then, then you get your final piece of paperwork, the I171H which has to be certified and authenticated along with another copy of the homestudy and then everything goes off to the agency for processing. The social worker seems to think we will make our deadline of April 13th. I sure hope so!! I want to start shopping!!!! Pretty much once your dossier goes to China and gets "logged-in", the rest is just waiting. More time to shop! LOL I also drove out to Riverhead today to go to the Suffolk County Clerk to get our Police Clearance forms certified. WOOHOO!