Update: 10/24/05

(This picture is of the nursery bedding that we bought!!!)

I called the USCIS office today in Baltimore, MD to check on the status of our I-600a application because we received our receipt notice in the mail informing us we could track the process of our application online. Well, that isn't true. The I-600a cannot be tracked online or over the phone. You can only find out what group of I-600a's are being processed at the current time. Right now, they are working on the I-600a's from August 15, 2005 and before. So, since our receipt date was October 12, 2005, if they stay on the same timeline...ours should be done around December 13, 2005. More waiting.......however, that is the name of this game. Paul and I are both a little frustrated with this since it may delay us even further with the whole adoption process, since we have to have the approval letter from INS before we can proceed any further. All of this is happening because our adoption agency, or the girl we were dealing with at the adoption agency, neglected to tell us when to file the I-600a. Now she is no longer with our adoption agency...as a matter of fact, the only person left in the Maryland office with our adoption agency is the social worker. So, when we run into problems or have questions about anything, we have to deal with the executive director of the agency who is down in the southeastern part of Florida via phone and/or email. Anyway......nothing we can do about it now, but wait....and pray that this doesn't cause us to have to re-do alot of our other documents for the Dossier. Oh well.....we'll just keep praying for the day we will finally meet and bring home our son from China!