Exciting News!

We've had some exciting news, which turned out to be the perfect gift on our 5th anniversary (Friday 13th). We are one step closer to Court. Currently, our case has been submitted to the Ministry for Emigration Permission. This process takes anywhere from 3-8 weeks.  Some cases have been taking 10+ weeks so we hope ours will stay under 8 weeks.  It's so exciting to see some movement. To date, our agency has had 5 families travel and are home with their little ones. It's great to know that things are moving slowly, but surely.
We're still waiting to receive our FBI clearances. We sent them in 3 weeks ago. It takes 4-6 weeks to receive the clearances so hopefully they'll get here soon. We also have been asked to update our home study. We updated it when we moved to TX last year and hoped we wouldn't have to update anything until our CIS paperwork expired. However, judges in Korea have been wanting home studies to have been completed in the last year. Our last home study was completed at the end of October 2012. We're cutting it close so our agency has asked us to update "just in case." I'm glad that we're covered in case, but it's more money and a home study does not come cheap.

We also found out that we won't be getting updated photos this month, which is sad. There are a lot of holidays in Korea this month so social worker's are not taking photos like they usually do. At least I think that's why they're not taking them. Either way, I know we won't be getting anything new. :( However, I don't think I ever shared last month's photos. So I thought I'd share one now. He looks so grown up in this photo!

Until next time,
Amanda and David