USCIS Application

Steph and I spent the evening today preparing our Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service. This is the branch of the US government that used to be called the INS. We downloaded form I-600A and completed the form.

A side note: We are accually applying to obtain approval to adopt 2 children from Ukraine. Yes, 2! It is necessary to do this in the event that we find a sibling pair. It just wouldn't be right to split a brother and sister. It is very important that we obtain approval for two as the US government would not aloow us to bring an additional child if one is all we get approval for. However, we can bring back just one even with the approval for two.

Tomorrow I will go to the bank to get a cashier's check for the application fee.
With this application we have to send State Certified Birth Certificates and Marriage Certificate.
We will soon receive an appointment to have another set of fingerpronts taken; this one is for the FBI. Its a good thing we have sqeeky clean records.