On Thursday morning I had my first meeting with Catholic Charities! Julie Bolles, my case worker, is awesome! We met for about an hour and she went through the entire process of the home study with me...and then handed me more paperwork! I am starting to think this is not the most eco-friendly process!
On Friday I sent my I-600A to the USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration services) office in Memphis. The USCIS is going to start the ball rolling for me to bring a foreign child into the country!! I have to wait about 3 weeks and then they will send me notification that I have an appointment to get fingerprinted for the FBI background check. My Mom has to get fingerprinted too. I also went to the Nashville police department on Friday to get the police background checks on mom and me. Thank goodness neither of us have been arrested!! A few days ago, I actually asked mom if she had ever been arrested... needless to say, I got a resounding NO and she was a bit shocked that I would think that! How am I supposed to know what she did before I was around!?!?!
Doesn't this paperwork process sound like fun?
This morning I attended a singles adoption support group. I was the newbie of the group. 2 ladies brought their adopted children (from Russia & Guatemala), one is waiting for her referral (from Ethiopia) and another has been waiting 6 years and is finally getting her child in June (from the Philippines). It was the first meeting of this group ever, so we just introduced ourselves today and discussed where we are in the process. Everyone was so nice and supportive. I am looking forward to the next time we meet.
I am having to get everything together for my home study... which includes a medical exam (a physical and tests for TB, hepatitis A, B & C, HIV, and a drug screening), financial report (how much stuff I have versus how much I owe!), write an autobiography about myself (I am fabulous!!), fill in questionnaires about my views on parenting & adoption, and a few other things. It is overwhelming to say the least! Oh, and I am supposed to be working on my dossier now as well. I guess they are trying to prepare me for motherhood by having me be really busy and multi-task like crazy!!!!!!
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Quote: "A few days ago, I actually asked mom if she had ever been arrested... needless to say, I got a resounding NO and she was a bit shocked that I would think that! How am I supposed to know what she did before I was around!?!?!"
This sounds very suspicious to me; now that I think about it "Sunny" sounds like an assumed name. You might want to check for previous aliases!!!
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