Home Visit

We finally set a date for our first of 4 home visits. We have finished all of the paperwork for this part! We still have to do 12 hours of parent training to do, and I have to photocopy a ton of documents. We are trying to figure out our fingerprinting and back ground check stuff. There are two different kinds of back ground check, a Federal one, and Adam Walsh screening which is super complicated. I'm pretty sure China is going to want the really complicated one. As soon as we're approved with our home study, China requires another background check, a Federal one, the same one we just did 2 weeks previous and paid $100 for, we get to do again, and pay another $100! Awesome. So, as soon as we do our home visits, (which I'm hoping to be finished by the end of the month), we start our last round of paper work! The paper work isn't that big of a deal, just a lot of forms, but then we have to send everything to get notarized at the city, county, state, federal levels, then notarized by the Chinese embassy. That takes a while. In the news letter that our agency puts out every month they said that last month the average travel time was only 4-6 months from the time the Dossier is logged into China. We could have our girls by next summer!!! I can't wait. We are all so excited.