A Welcome Invitation

Today we received the equivalent to Wonka's Golden Ticket in the mail - at least it felt that way for us!

We have been patiently waiting and wondering, "Where in tarnation is our Homestudy in Alabama?" And today we found out - it isn't in Alabama anymore! It actually made its way to Immigration in Atlanta!

We had mailed our application and fees to immigration months ago, thinking that the homestudy would quickly follow. I can only imagine it sitting on some poor soul's desk in their inbox FOREVER. I used to detest the things that just sat in the BOTTOM of my inbox!

So this delighted person (my vision!) received the rest of the paperwork and was able to issue our "invitation to be fingerprinted by Homeland Security." Yes - we will be fingerprinted AGAIN! We were given an appointment in Birmingham for January 15 at 9:00 a.m. We will probably go up on Monday night and spend the night so that we are sure to be there!

And then we wait for that last magic piece of paper for our dossier - our permission to bring Ty home, issued by the Dept of Homeland Security/Immigration. Let's hope for a 30 day turnaround!

THIS is how we wanted to start the year!

We are so anxious, because as soon as we are DTC (Dossier to China) we can send care packages to Ty!!!!!! And Valentines, and Easter gifts, etc!!!!!