We got a little behind schedule due to the holidays. Our hope was to have all our paperwork completed and ready so we could "go live" presenting our profile at the beginning of January. We are now over halfway through the month, and we STILL do not have our home study update completed due to our clearances (FBI fingerprinting and Child Abuse & Neglect) not being back yet. We think they were sent off in early December, so I guess the holiday closings are making things run slower than usual. This is at least the third time we've had these clearances done, so I don't know why it would take so long, but either way, we have not seen our home study update as a result. Once those come back our social worker will send us a draft of our home study for corrections. Then we will pay the fees for the update and the home study will be notarized and mailed out. Our social worker has several other documents that we need from her to send to our consultants, so the whole process will take a good 2 weeks once our clearances are back.
We are almost done with our profile book. A friend and coworker of Brad's has been doing the computer graphics for us and she is doing a great job! We hope to be able to send a PDF of our profile to FAC the end of this week for them to review. Maybe we will get lucky and there won't be any major changes. Once we get the go ahead on our profile, we will have to get several copies printed up and mailed to FAC. That could easily take a couple weeks as well.
Best case scenario we are looking at early February before we are ready to present. We have to mail all our documents to FAC in one package, but we have scanned all the documents we have so far to them. I man getting anxious to have this phase of the adoption completed. The paperwork stage is ALL we've ever done (3 times) and it really sucks. There is no gratification in it except being done! Hopefully we'll have some progress to report in February. . .
