I-600 APPROVED!!!!!!

OMGOSH!!  Yes!! We are I600 approved!!  I posted this morning with a not-so-happy post, tired of the wait, really needing something,  blah, blah, blah.  Well,  I picked Tay up from school this afternoon, got home, checked the mail, and there it was -  our I600 approval!  This is the last approved  form we'll need from our government - thank goodness!  Soon it'll all be up to the US Embassy in Seoul, Korea!

I can't believe it happened so fast.  Last Thursday, Mike and I went early to try and get our fingerprints done for the third time in 3 1/2 years. When your fingerprints are printed, they will expire in 15 months, silly, I know,  why would they expire?  It's not like your fingerprints ever change?!?!  We did finally get the appointment sheet, but it was for October 7th - nope, not good enough I said!  Got word that we could go in earlier than that, so we did.  Walked out of that office in 30 minutes with them completed.  Then, after leaving there, I went to my mom and dad's house.  I had arrived there  with my cell phone ringing with an "unknown" caller, it was USCIS wanting a copy of our completed Home Study, and our I-171H approval.  I ran home right then and faxed them. So I'm thinking..... this approval  may take a while.  I was hopeful for maybe a week to process?  But I was trying to think more logical, okay it could take more than a week, but I'd sure like to hear something by Friday of this week.  Got home today and my wish came true!

On the form it said "Approval Date" - September 24, 2010.  So that means we were approved (1) day after we had our fingerprints done- (1) day - WOW!!!  I've never heard of anyone getting approval (1) day after prints were completed.  I know it had to help that this was our third time getting them done, but "holy cow!"  We were fingerprinted on Thursday and were approved the very next day!  Have ya got all that or do I need to say it again!?!?  Yeah, I know, like I have to repeat it one more time?! :)

So now, we wait, yet again!  Now that our I600 is approved, it will be sent to the National Visa Center in New Hampshire.  The approval will then be sent to the US Embassy in Seoul, Korea.

Nothing here either....

It's Thursday morning.  Nothing new, nothing to report, nothing received.....just plain ole NOTHING.  I've got one more day of this week to get through, waiting for "something".  We'll see tomorrow afternoon if anything should come our way.  I thought this whole process would be hard, but it's true what other adopted mothers say, "the last part of the wait gets harder and harder."  We know Aiden will be ours soon, maybe that's the hardest part, knowing he's ours and we can't have him home yet.  I'm nervous, excited, happy, sad, anxious,  just a bundle of emotions these days.  I know there's an end in sight, but it sure is hard waiting for it.....