Biometrics DONE! :)

Whew! What a whirlwind... we FedEx'd our USCIS I-600A application to Dallas TX on January 28th, it arrived on February 1st and our check was cashed on February 3rd. I thought that quick turnaround meant things would go fast. From there, our file was sent to MO. I called every week to see if we had a biometrics appointment and kept being told it was "on the floor" and we'd hear soon. I kept asking how much longer and there was no timeframe, no appointment, no officer. Last Monday, March 7th, I called again and an officer answered the phone who was willing to look a little deeper into our file and offered to pull the file herself and made our appointment ON THE PHONE! :) That was a surprise and an answer to a prayer. Unfortunately, the first appointment she had in the system would be on April 4th, another MONTH away :( So as soon as we got our official appointment letter on Saturday, we planned to walk in today and hope we could be seen. We were blessed that our friend, Amy, could watch all the girls for us, got to the Pomona ASC office right at 9:05 with the hopes that they would do our prints without an appointment today... we were told they could see us but that we'd possibly have to wait and that others would have priority over us. There were only about 4-5 people in there, but he said that if new people came in with appointments, it would set us back further. We said, "okay" and were prepared to wait all day if we had to... we just wanted them done! Can you believe we only waited 5 minutes before they called our number?! We were in and out of there in 20 minutes! YEEHAW as Marianne said this morning :) haha

Once we got home and settled in, I called USCIS and asked for the same nice officer who helped me last Monday, and she was available. She remembered me! I told her we were able to walk in and do our prints this morning and she sounded so happy for us. She told me that she would get to our prints by Wednesday and process us within a week! What a blessing!!! She offered to take our file personally and handle it and that if we don't hear something in the next couple weeks to call her. After talking to friends, I found out this is the same AWESOME officer that helped them! How blessed they were to have a caring, compassionate officer who processed them quickly. So, we are hoping to have the same outcome, and are confident we will because of how proactive she has been. It is nice to have someone on our side helping things be expedited along :)

When this is all done, I will give her proper credit by name and explain more about the country we are adopting from and why she found the need to be urgent with us. But for now, just know that we are so extremely blessed and the Lord is looking out for sweet Micah!

:)