We have been calling the UCIS in Texas once or twice a week for the past three weeks. The reason was, to see if we have an agent working on our case. NO! has been the answer of choice! They tell us that it takes 45-90 days and that they only received our application on August 10th. Although, I think to myself, "obviously that means nothing to me since I keep calling"!!! None the less I have to be patient...I am trusting in God's timing, not the government, so I continued to call!!! My thought was that a Squeaky wheel gets the grease, so I was trying to SQUEAK very often yet kindly :)
Finally, on September 28th I called and again asked if there was any news on our case, and to my surprise, she said YES! We were approved on September 24th, the 45th day!!! I squealed in the ear of the sweet robotic government lady and she quickly told me to have a nice day.... I was hoping to break the 45 day mark, shame on me and my ungrateful spirit!!! However, Kelsey, the sweet social worker through my adoption agency, kindly reminded me that they are seeing this process take 70+ days! Thank you Lord, I will take it, and please forgive me yet again!!!!
I know this blog probably means nothing to most of you following, so I will break it down....
We first needed the US to approve us and our home study for international adoption. This is the first "big step" after this approval we will wait 5-12 weeks on China to approve us!!! This may seem far away but really we are right around the corner!!!
