It looks like we’re entering the final stages of the paperwork drill. Our dossier was complete, but because we moved to Ankara, we needed to update the approval that we had from Citizens and Immigration Services (CIS), the US government agency that provides approval for visas for orphans. Also, when we got our approval we thought we would probably adopting from China. So, we needed to change our home address and the country of adoption.

That turns out to be a two step process. First, we need to change the country of adoption by submitting a form to CIS in Baltimore, the original office who gave us the permission. Amazingly, that only took about a week and we now have that paperwork updated. Now, we need to change our home address, which will be done by the regional CIS office in Athens. We’re working on that right now, but have everything lined up so it shouldn’t take too long.

Basically, we needed to have an updated home study done by a licensed social worker, which we did. We will submit that to the Athens office and we should be all set with the proper permissions from the USG to move forward with the adoption. Now we are just waiting for the Vietnamese government to finish the licensing of US adoption agencies - another whole story.

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