On Wednesday I got a call from my sweet friend and neighbor who's been checking our mail for us this week, and she said she'd picked up a "we missed you" notice on our door from FedEx!!! YAY! I called and had them hold the package for us, and found out that it's from... Drum roll please....... THE FBI!!!!! Can I get a "what, WHAT?!?!" I picked it up this morning, and it was my long lost fingerprint results! That shaves about 2.5 weeks off of our estimated paperwork collecting time!
So really, the only thing we're waiting for is approval from immigration (I-171H) and my birth certificate. I also came home to a letter from the Department of State (I was born abroad, so they handle it) that says that they need another document from me before they can issue a corrected birth certificate. For now, I'm going to continue to pursue this, but if it turns out to be the last thing we're waiting on, I might ask our case worker if we can send it in misspelled, with a notarized letter to explain the error.
Things are moving right along, folks!!! Praise the Lord!!!
PS: to everyone who I told that I thought we might also have received our immigration approval while away, I was wrong. It was a small misunderstanding. CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Service), which is a branch of the FBI, sounds a lot like CIS (Center for Immigration Services) on a phone recording to an over-excited mama-in-waiting :). We're still thankful we have our prints!!!
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YAAAAAY!!! :) :)
Young Life is a small world:) My friend that I was talking about is Megan Wright (last name Scalf now, doing YL in Goldsboro). I hope you get your last two things in the mail this week! Jumping onto waitlist is so exciting!
Isn't it awesome how 2 and a half weeks of waiting makes such a huge difference?!
So glad you got the paperwork you were waiting for! And hopefully you'll be on the "waiting" page in not too long at all!
It DOES make a huge difference, thanks so much!
Happy for you!
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