A little letter from Homeland Secruity

Tonight as I was finishing walking the dog I stopped off to check the mailbox. In our mail along with the usual catalogs, credit card offers, and coupons junk; I found a letter addressed from "Department of Homeland Security; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services".

Monica and I quickly opened the letter and received the great news that we have been approved for our child's advance visa application. This document that we received today is called I-171H and is valid for the next 18 months. We couldn't send our application to Colombia without this approval since Colombia certainly doesn't want to grant an adoption for a child that won't be able to go home to the United States with their new parents. So now that we have our Immigration approval, we should be able to send our dossier down to Colombia within about a week or two as we are still tying up the last few loose strings with some other papers.

We are getting very anxious as we get closer and closer but this was a great milestone in our journey toward our being united with our little one. This is a happy day for us and we wanted to share it with everyone who has been so supportive and excited for us to beginning our family.