Big Announcement-Part 2 (finally)

I have been waiting for the official "green light" for our adoption of Naomi to post the details. It seems that is taking "forever" so I will post anyway.

Andrew and I have applied to adopt from Ghana. We are hoping to do a private adoption with the assistance of Beacon house http://beaconhouseghana.org/ . The application process typically takes 3 weeks, however our volunteer adoption coordinator just brought home her newly adopted son from Ghana. It's been a little over 3 weeks. So we wait. Well in the meantime, we are busily getting everything else in order so we can move forward once (if?) we are officially accepted into their program.

Last Thursday we had our homestudy visit. We were blessed to use our previous social worker from AGCI. We absolutely ADORE her. We did Levi's 1 year post placement and our homestudy update at the same time. Beautiful!

We have our dossier 95% complete. Once we receive our new homestudy we will apply for an extension of our I-171H. When you adopt internationally you have to have permission from the USCIS to immigrate a child. We previously were approved for 2 children. Levi was one of them. Now we can ask for a free extension, free country change, and free re-fingerprinting for this adoption. Awesome! The word free is very uncommon in the adoption process.

Once we receive this wonderful piece of paper we will send our dossier to Ghana. Then more waiting as will wait for a match of a child. We have requested a girl 0-4yrs. The wait time in a bit unclear. Could be up to 6 months. The process in Ghana is less streamlined as compared to Ethiopia. There were over 2000 adoptions in Ethiopia to the US in 2009 and only 120 from Ghana. As far aw we can tell the adoption part in relatively easy but the visa and passports part is drama, drama, drama.

So there you go Part 2 is out. Hopefully we will receive our acceptance into their program and we will continue to move forward. If we don't...... not sure. More praying. More waiting on God.