Adoption Process Update

We are moving along in the adoption process. We have left the dreaded box 13 which is the good news. The bad news is we are now in limbo. Normally we would go right to box 14 but there has been a set back with our documents. In January we noticed a mistake on our I-171H form. This is the international form that goes to the US embassy in VN to state we are eligible to adopt x number of children. Our home study stated that we could adopt two children. Our front page of our home study stated only one child when in fact we are approved for two. In January we noticed the mistake and had it corrected. It was sent to the embassy in VN and is on file in the Embassy in VN. The agency never informed us that this document needed to be notarized, state certified and country authenticated and sent to the DIA. Our home study expired in June (it is only good for one year) so we updated our home study with our Social Worker this information was sent to the agency and we thought this was done and we would be ready to travel when the time comes. We were informed that the update to the home study was not processed by the agency and had been sitting on their server for months without any attention. Now that we are moving along in the process we found out that this paper work has to be done before we can move to box 14 and be given a G&R date.
Box 14 is when the DIA reviews and approves the child dossier. After the DIA has approved the girl’s dossier and they are deemed available for adoption the DIA issues at 2nd notification to the DMOJ (Province officials) to prepare for a G&R.

What all this means is that we again wait and the girls wait. In an ideal adoption we could travel within a month. Now we have no idea when we will travel but it will happen.