Home Study Approved!

The end of our paperwork is in sight!

Our home study has been approved.  We should be getting the approval paperwork soon, and that will complete our dossier!!  Just about everything is notarized, thanks to my good friend Brandy.  We did have to print our medical reports to be signed by the doctor four times, but now they should be right.  Definitely better to catch the mistakes before it goes to the US and Ethiopian governments.

I took off next Wednesday in faith, hoping the home study approval will be ready.  If so, I'll be heading downtown with our complete dossier for the county clerk stamp and then to Frankfort, KY for the secretary of state seal.  Then it goes by courier to the US Department of State for their seal before being sent to the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington, D.C.   Then it's sent to our agency so they can mail it to their contact in Ethiopia.  From there, our agency tells us the next steps are:

1. Dossier translated and authenticated in Ethiopia.
2. Case submitted to court.
3. Court date given.
4. Case approved by the court.
5. Case submitted to embassy for appointment.
6. Family travels to Ethiopia.
7. Home !!!

There are lots of other little steps in there, and there can be months and months of waiting time between those steps.  But every step is a little bit closer to welcoming our children home!