Though we haven’t had too many big updates in the last week or so, we’ve been pulling together the last bits of our dossier.  Hopefully, we’ll be receiving our authenticated Pennsylvania documents from the New York Chinese Consulate sometime this week.  I head to the Secretary of State office on Wednesday morning, and we have our official “Biometrics” appointment this Friday. I’m sure that we’ll have something exciting to report as Our Government records our fingerprints for the second time.  Thank goodness USCIS has a service office in Naperville, so at least we don’t have to schlep downtown for the appointment.

Once the fingerprints are done, then starts our campaign to “get things moving” at the National Benefits Center in MO. Though the official line is that they have 90 days to process our immigration approval from day of acceptance to delivery, it sounds as though a little gentle prodding can change that window to a little over 40 days.

On the home front, we’ve started dismantling what has been our office/stuff-it-all-away room in order to begin creating our child’s room.  We have a long way to go in order to get things set up, but it’s a start.