Home Study

The wait is over for the 171H, but we are still waiting on our homestudy. We were able to do an addendum to our old homestudy from when we were pursuing Ukraine so that we could go ahead and file for our INS approval. In the meantime, we've been having our homevisits for our official China homestudy. Since we didn't think we were in a rush for it, we didn't push to get it done really quickly, and didn't worry too much when we would be pushed back because of something else that the social worker had to work on. But now, we are in a rush, and there is nothing to do but wait. Our homestudy is done, and waiting at the homestudy agency to be signed by the director of the agency. Technically only the social worker that does the homestudy has to sign off on it, but the policy of our homestudy agency is that the director sign also. The problem is, he's on vacation until August 21st! So we wait. . . Impatiently. I have to keep telling myself that it's all working in God's best timing. There's still a chance that we can bring Ethan home before the end of this year, but it's too early to tell for sure. The average wait from LID to TA is currently around 80 days. We'll see how long it takes us to get our dossier authenticated and sent to China then logged in (LID) Then we can start counting down the days.