We started our homestudy in early October with Angels Haven Outreach and had a fantastic experience. It took us six weeks to pull together birth certificates, marriage certificate, social worker visits, family interview, medical exams, financial documents, recommendation letters and more! Cara at Angels Haven Outreach was very supportive in moving the process along quickly - I feel for her having to deal with two engineers!
With the homestudy complete, next up was filing an application with the U.S. Customs & Immigration Service. The USCIS looks at the homestudy, does a criminal background check and verifies whether or not a family is suitable to adopt. We got our application filed in mid-November and periodically checked with our case officer on the progress. I assumed that contacting a government agency would be a nightmare but was pleasantly surprised to always speak to a cheerful person who had access to information and seemed interested in helping me out!
In mid-January, we found out that our application was approved and everything was complete on the U.S. side. Now we needed to shift our focus to Uganda and get our court date.
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