We are really making progress now!
Yesterday I had my fingerprinting
appointment for USCIS. This is the last big thing we need to
accomplish before sending our dossier to Bulgaria! We are so excited
that we are almost there! We have to wait for the fingerprints to be
approved and then we have to get a few more things including that
notarized and apostilled. This should all take another 2 weeks, then
we can send the dossier! It's crazy!
I have no idea how long it takes to get
a dossier approved, but once that happens we get our official
referral. That is a document that says we can adopt our boy! Once we
get that, we can book our trip to go see him! Lots of exclamation
points, because we are getting so excited!
We just started school with the kids
and are learning as much Bulgarian as we can until it's time to go.
We are focusing our efforts on that now, since all our paperwork is
pretty much finished. We just got a certificate from our adoption agency telling us that we are approved by them to adopt our boy!
Fundraising has gone well. We have paid
all the fees on this end of things in the US, but still have to pay
8500 Euros to the agency in Bulgaria, our travel fees, and various
things like his visa and medical appointments to get him home. Our
tshirt fundraiser went well and some of you have asked if you can
still get a tshirt. You can go to:
http://teespring.com/world-s-best-adoption-shirt
and reserve one, if 25 people do this, they will do another print of
them. You won't be charged unless they end up reprinting.
If you already got your tshirt, but
want to be a part of the adoption story, you can still donate to our
Pure Charity account and get a tax deduction:
https://purecharity.com/dorazioadoption
. We have been doing well saving our money and are about halfway
there on the rest of our fees. I think we are doing this all without
going into debt and it's crazy!
You guys have all been so supportive
and amazing through this whole process supporting us financially,
through prayer and through your love. We've felt like we haven't been
going through this alone. We are on the home stretch now, hopefully
you will all get to meet our son soon!
