Invoices Mean Moving Forward

On Friday we got an invoice in the mail for our dossier. This might not seem like much but it actually is. Our next invoice won't come until referral which is probably 24 months from now so this is a milestone. Tim put the check in the mail today for the dossier payment so now our agency can move ahead with the final elements of it as these are administration fees. We're of course still waiting for our I-171h form which we hope will be completed around mid December but once we have that THEN the dossier will be complete!

Baby Steps (heh)

Today is a good day. Tim dropped off our home study at the USCIS (immigration) office. We've been waiting for our home study to be finalized for quite a while. From start to finish the whole home study took 2 months. It would have been a lot smarter if we could have done the home study alongside other parts of the dossier but... So now the home study is with USCIS and from there we wait for them to take a look at it and make sure everything is okay and if it is we'll get our I-171h form which is the last document we need to complete our dossier. Once it's complete we can begin the process of our agency examining all our forms. They'll tell us if everything looks okay, if our notaries made any mistakes, if there are any inconsistencies, etc. Fingers crossed we'll still be DTC (dossier to China) by January.