UPDATE ON POA AND HOME STUDY SAGA

I thought I would update everyone on the power of attorney and home study saga. You may be saying, "I didn't know there was a saga with the power of attorney." Well, there was. It wasn't major. We just had to get it signed and notarized again today after we had done it and sent it off yesterday. On the power of attorney, there is a place for us to sign, for the notary to sign and place her stamp, and there are two lines for a witness to sign. I thought that there could be one witness and that the first line was for her to witness that Eddie signed and the next line was for her to witness that I signed. NO! I had to have two different witnesses, so we had to go back and do it again today. We are blessed though that a friend of mine at our local bank is a notary, so she was more than happy to do it for us. The other ladies at the bank were also very happy to act as witnesses. They they said they feel really special being a part of our adoption. Well, it was signed, notarized, witnessed, scanned, and e-mailed off again tonight. It is now ready to be translated.

Now to the home study saga. I e-mailed our social worker with the things that Taiwan wants in the next home study addendum. Hopefully she is working on that and I will have it soon. I asked her to please send me a draft before she gets it notarized so that I can e-mail it to Taiwan for review and approval to make sure that will satisfy what they are wanting. I am not sure how this is going to work with immigration. We have already received our first I600A approval notice and because of the last addendum, we have reqested our one free update. What I am not sure of is if this new addendum is going to cause a problem and if we are going to have to pay USCIS again. My thought is that we won't, but I am not sure. The information in the last addendum changed information that was approved and on our I600A approval. It was changed from being able to adopt a 0-2 year old child to a 0-4 year old child. That is a big issue when it comes to bringing our child home, so that definately affected our status with USCIS. This new home study addendum is address misspelled words in the original home study and in the home study addendum. This issue has nothing to do with an immigration issue. It is for Taiwan because of an apparent translation problem, so maybe we won't even have to do anything with USCIS. They will most likely be sent a copy of the new addendum so that they will have it, but it shouldn't have any bearing on our I600A approval. At least I don't think so. I have e-mailed my social worker asking her about that, but I haven't received a reply yet. We really can't afford to pay USCIS again, so please pray that we don't run into that problem. Also please pray that our social worker will have mercy on us and not charge us for this addendum. An addendum is $100 and we have already had to pay for one addendum. Hopefully, since this one was not our fault, they will have mercy and not charge us.

Please pray that we are able to save money faster. We are going to need about $5000 to $6000 more to bring Isaac home. We are having unexpected expenses pop up lately, so saving has been a challenge. Eddie is also VERY, VERY stressed at work. Please pray for peace for him.