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Approval of I-171H

We went to CIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) in Oakland to have our fingerprints done for our I600 (Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative).

Filing of form I-171H (Notice of Favorable Determination Concerning Application for Advanced Processing of Orphan Petition).

Social Worker visited our home which is part of our homestudy. We showed her our home and had discussions with her individually.

Visited the Napa County Coroner’s office to verify that we have no criminal record.

We went to meet with a counselor in San Rafael area to discuss other paperwork we needed to complete.

It was our first meeting with our social worker in Novato. She is the one who will create our homestudy. The homestudy is pretty much what it is… a home study. We talked about what kind of parents my husband … Continue reading →

My husband and I needed to get our medical record together that is needed for the adoption and will go into our dossier. On this day, we had our physical examination and had blood tests.

We attended a BAAS mandatory pre-adopt meeting in Mountain View. In the meeting, BAAS discussed in more detail of the adoption process which includes forms we needed to fill out, documents we need to acquire, etc. There were at about … Continue reading →

That was the first day we had our adoption orientation meeting with BAAS (Bay Area Adoption Service) in San Francisco. In this meeting, we found out who BAAS is, what other countries they offer adoption, fees, homestudy, wait time  and … Continue reading →