Last Wednesday, we went and had our fingerprints taken at the USCIS office in Birmingham for our I-171H. For everyone who doesn't know what that is, it's the approval letter you have to receive from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that lets you move on with the adoption and complete your dossier. Form I-171H is actually called the "Notice of Favorable Determination Concerning Application for Advanced Processing of Orphan Petition" if that means anything to anyone. Once we have this letter of approval we will be able to carry our dossier to the Secretary of State and have the state seal of approval placed on it, this signifies that the dossier is complete from our level and ready to be mailed to Washington D.C. and then on to Ethiopia.
Getting our I-171H back approved will also let us move on into the referral part of our adoption. So we have already begun to pray that we will know beyond any doubt what children it is that God wants to be part of our family. And if you want to know how you can best pray for us that would be it, pray that He will make who"our little Wigintons" are abundantly clear to us. We have absolute faith that He will, and we cannot wait for the moment that we see their precious little faces for the first time!
Well that's about it for now, hopefully we will hear something soon from the USCIS regarding our I-171H and as soon as we do I'm sure we'll be letting everyone know. Thanks again for all your support and prayers while we walk down this new journey in our lives.
Getting our I-171H back approved will also let us move on into the referral part of our adoption. So we have already begun to pray that we will know beyond any doubt what children it is that God wants to be part of our family. And if you want to know how you can best pray for us that would be it, pray that He will make who"our little Wigintons" are abundantly clear to us. We have absolute faith that He will, and we cannot wait for the moment that we see their precious little faces for the first time!
Hi! My name is Lisa :) Looks like we are right on the same timeline :) we are with YWAM too and just had our prints done...had a little hang with the prints but still..so cool that we are on the same path! God bless yous and hope that you get to know who your sweet kids are soon!!
ReplyDeleteOur appointment to get our fingerprints are next Friday. :) Praying for you guys as you get ready to see your little ones!
ReplyDeleteJust started following your blog! Congrats on the adoption! Did you receive your I600A approval? I'm looking forward to hearing more about your journey!
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