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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

It's Turkey day, and I'm working a four hour shift this morning. I'll get home at about 11am, and start the turkey. We never eat before about 5pm, so, I have plenty of time. James is coming over today, and it will be great to see him, as I haven't been home on the days he has come over for about a month now.

The kids had their medical checkups yesterday, and I got the letters written for WIA. That completes all the paperwork I need for the homestudy, except for the reference letters to all get in. I'll send the packet of documents off tomorrow.

I have emailed Ky at AAI to see if there is a form she can email me, as I do not have the official financial statement, and know I will need that for the dossier. Once I have that filled out and notarized, I can batch all the Utah documents and send them for state certification. I have to nail Tim down on getting the marriage certificate and his birth certificate, as we are using his credit card for ordering, and he and I need to coordinate that. I will wait to have my birth certificate certified until our marriage certificate is here, as they are both from Maryland.

After that, it's just waiting to see how the homestudy goes, and as long as we continue to have a green light from WIA, I will go ahead and get the big pile of docs certified. Then, it's just wait for the homestudy to be completed, and send it, along with an I800a application form, to USCIS. Right now the processing time is between 90 and 120 days for that document. But, it's the last document we have to wait for, so, hopefully, we can get the rest of the dossier docs done long before that one comes back in. If we get the homestudy done by Christmas, we are looking at March or April for our I800 approval. It seems like it is still so far away, but, I know the time will pass quickly.

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