The home study is finished

Finally!!! Debbie got final approval on our home study over the weekend. This now means that she will send the home study to Los Ninos (LNI) for them to send off for verification and authentication. Thank God they have decided they will take care of that for us. We will then sign the contract with LNI, send them the agency fee, get our dossier together and send it off for verification and authentication. LNI will then send the dossier to Vietnam for them to approve it. Once that happens, we will be "in the waiting pool."

No news from Rome

I called the US Embassy in Rome yesterday to find out if they have received anything back from immigration for us and so far they haven't . They expect to know something in a few weeks. Adopt Abroad, who is the agency that our social worker, Debbie works through also hasn't given us final approval on the home study yet either. We were hoping to hear word last night, but didn't.

God Bless,
Meg

Adoption News

As many of you know, we have been working on the adoption process for almost a year now. We thought that we were going to adopt a little girl from China, but when the regulations changed we no longer qualified.
After lots of prayer we decided that Vietnam was where our hearts were called. Now due to the fact that the agency we were working with only worked with China we then needed to find a new agency.
We are happy to say that we found an agency located in Texas, Los Ninos that we are now working with.

Our social worker, Debbie has been very accommodating and patient as she had to reformat a lot of our home study and even lengthen it. Los Ninos requires many items and education that many other agencies do not. We have been working very hard together to get this done. Plus we have had numerous mail issues so our home study was held up a little due to the fact that our reference letters just could not seem to get to us.

Diana, Cathy Dan and Kevin we have now received all of your letters of reference. Thank you so much for your support and kind words. Thank you to everyone who is keeping us in your prayers and supporting this adoption.

We have been waiting on Los Ninos for 2 weeks to find out if our home study is going to be approved or not. Just today I received an email from Debbie stating that only a few minor changes need to be made, but that there is nothing else that needs to be added!!!