One month ago today, our lives changed forever with one phone call. On the anniversary of our referral, I thought I’d share what still needs to happen before our little one can come home.
• Acceptance paperwork is sent to Korea. (This is completed.)
• Korea sends papers called “legals” to our agency. (completed 11/13/08)
• Agency files our I600 (petition to classifty orphan as an immediate relative) with United States Citizen and Immigration (completed)
• USCIS approves the I600 (hopefully) which says that Bug can be adopted by us and sends it to the National Visa Center. (completed 12/12/08)
• Case is logged into the NVC and our paperwork is sent to the embassy in Korea.
• Embassy sends a packet 3 (P3) to our agency in Korea.
• The P3 is returned to the embassy and a visa interview (VI) is scheduled.
• A visa is issued. In order to have a visa issued an emigration permit must be issued. This is permission from the Korean gov’t for our child to leave the country. He also would have had a visa physical.
• Once the visa is issued we wait for our social worker to call and say Bug is ready to travel.
Our sw say all this takes between 3-6 months. We’re hoping for three until our sunny day!
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Wish I was a Korean Diplomat or someone else with strings to pull. Here's praying for 3 months!
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