what comes next?

We’ve done everything on our end for our home study, so you might be wondering what happens now. Mostly it’s a mass of paperwork and even more waiting for other people to do their thing (hopefully with haste and efficiency). Here is an abbreviated version of next steps, and I am sure I am leaving somethings out.

• Our social worker writes up our home study, which we have to read and approve before it’s officially signed off as being complete.

• Once we have a finished home study we can apply for our i800A with USCIS. This is where the biggest waiting happens. They say it can take 2-4 months to be approved, and our dossier isn’t considered complete until we have this. :( Part of this process is being fingerprinted again.

• We also need to finish gathering and having our other dossier documents notarized/sealed/apostilled. We have done all of this with the documents we have. We are just waiting on two from our social worker and then the home study and approved i800A. My understanding is that they will send our dossier to Bulgaria without the i800A so that it’s there before our December 11 deadline (we had 6 months from the time we matched to get them everything).

• Once Bulgaria has our dossier and USCIS form, we wait for the official referral and trip one dates. This still looks almost certain to be virtual because of Covid.

Right now we are just praying to the universe that people do their parts of this journey quickly and that the USCIS process happens with mass efficiency and speed. We welcome you manifesting this for us too. We just want our Tippi home ASAP!

Working through our checklist and getting alllllll the documents made official.