Saturday, October 23, 2010
Our Home Study Report is Headed to IL DCFS!
Yay!!! We heard back from our social worker and our home study report will be sent to Illinois' Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) on Monday, October 25!! (A home study involves visits to our home from a social worker and lots and lots of paperwork, classes/trainings/research/readings, state and federal background checks, reference letters, medical evaluations, financial evaluations, parenting evaluations, personality evaluations, marriage evaluations - you name it and we've been evaluated regarding it! We had our first home study visit on July 6, just to give you an idea of how long it takes.) Now we wait for approval from the state of Illinois in order to move forward to the next step - approval from U.S. Customs and Immigration. We are hope, hope, hoping that DCFS will give us their stamp of approval quickly, and not in 6-8 weeks like it was taking this summer! Why can't we just go get him??? Sometimes rules and regulations just plain stink. Please keep our little one in your thoughts and prayers as we "hurry up and wait."
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Hi, Bobbie...I left a comment earlier, but it disappeared! Anyway, so glad you have the homestudy done. And I know what you mean about having to be evaluated on everything. When we tried to adopt from Russia, I almost expected some govt. agency to check our underwear drawer! LOL...Is Robert cleared immediately? Caroline isn't until next Spring. So even though I'd LOVE to travel with someone, I hope you get to your boy before then! :)
ReplyDeleteHopefully we'll be able to travel in February or March - as soon as they start accepting dossiers again!
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