EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

anyone who knows me online knows that EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! means something good happened! Our I171H is here. in record time. and I dont have everything else! that means I cant submit my dossier yet. but I will get going quickly now! I just thought I had lots of time since the I171H usually takes weeks or months. so I need to hurry and gather my documents. hurry and save money. hurry and have a garage sale to try and make a few more sheckles. If anyone would like to donate they can click on the button of our girls to the right. or click the chipin on the right. If 20 people sent 2 dollars that is one nights hotel or apartment stay. I hope we have enough cash flow to get this done. I know we will get it back later but since we just finished an adoption x two 6 months ago we pretty much drained our savings. and are using our entire tax refund this year towards the girls. We have to buy beds still too. and airfare. We have plenty for facilitator. its travel where we might come up short. I guess there is always the credit card. ugh.

anyways I ALWAYS second guess myself in everything. the girls names are no different. Molly is still Molly. I ALWAYS wanted a Molly. so that works out great. but Halle and Hope are now on my questionable list. will halle always end up being hayley? or Hal? what if we named them Natasha Madeline and Diana Margaret? then we would have Maia Maddy Molly and Maggie. maia and molly will already be virtually twins. along with ben. ah well I guess I will come up with something. Eric's eyes just glaze over and he says we have months to come up with a name....

GRR! this one NAGGING piece of the puzzle!

first my letter requesting public record was returned because I forgot to add the check. so I returned it WITH check and they now returned it saying they need Erics signature too. So it is all packed up to return. and it has now been two weeks and they take two weeks to process it so my "two weeks" will be more like a month. and why do they need his signature if its public record and I could walk in off the street and get it but I cant get it by mail without his signature? next they will write me and tell me some other reason I cant do it. and why didnt they ask for the signature the first time they returned it? I could have driven down there, waited an hour, driven home, stopped for lunch on the way and had it all done in one day but I dont have any days coming up when I can do that. so back it goes in the mail. hopefully this time it comes through. I ordered our marriage certs and those wont take long as I know st louis county works fast and I made SURE to include check! lol. then its just a bunch of miscellanious signing and our dossier will be good to go(when our I171h gets here, remember they said this week)

I am having my OHMYGOD I am about to give birth! panic attack!

what am I doing? what am I thinking? what if Molly doesnt respond to us? what if they dont want to be adopted? what if they dont want to be adopted and we bring home someone else and they are sociopaths in the making? what if the plane falls out of the sky? what if I get lost in country? (really Ptown isnt THAT big)what if I run out of money? what if I get mugged? what if the girls dont like me or listen to me? what if they run away at the airport? what if I have to cry all the way across the ocean again thinking what have I done? and when will I sleep? I NEED sleep. and if I have to keep track of three nonsleeping girls all the way home when will I sleep? what if Molly turns out to be really too much and we feel we cant bring her home? What will happen then? and what will I do all by myself for couple weeks in Ptown? I dont Speaka Da Language. what if my family falls apart? what if the kids are sick when Im gone? what if Sophie and Ben are mad at me for leaving them? Will Ethan ever forgive me for leaving him again? it isnt too late to turn back! Think how easy life was with 4 kids! now there are 6! what in the world am I to do with NINE??or TEN if the boy is able to join us?

ok freak out over. my girls are waiting and I am going to go whip up the paperwork I need so when the gov approval comes we can send it all off!

they came through

well they finally got it together and said I dont have to pay. and prints are still good. and should have my application done next week. that means in a weeks time I have to get my act together and get the rest of my documents together!

GRR

the only way to resolve the issue is to pay for prints we dont need and get a freebie later. (presuming we adopt again and with 9 kids at home there is a very real possibility we wont!)so I have to send them 160 dollars. why cant the agencies communicate with each other? why when I do exactly as they tell me to do I still have to pay for something I dont need? I will send it for the girls. Not for me, I would gladly feud this out on principles. but for the girls, I will do it. they cant wait for me to fight it out and take months and months. they need to come home now. So off to the post I will go with my 160 bucks and copy of letter and hope that when it gets where its going things will move along quickly.

doesnt anybody READ

From: k m
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:50 PM
To: SPMAdoption
Subject: I797C notice

My name is Tammy E, and my husband Eric E and myself filed an I600A recently. We have fingerprints on file with you from previous adoption, that I171H said they were good until September 2010. I included a copy of that with my application. I have now received a letter (I797C) that says we must pay for biometrics and until we do our application is suspended. Please advise me on this matter. We are planning to adopt special needs children and this hold up means the children are at risk of being sent to an institution which may make them unadoptable. I look forward to hearing from you on this matter. My receipt number for th I797C is _______



here is their reply...

Good morning. I’m unable to tell from your email what it is you’re trying to do. Did you file a new I-600A with the Texas Service Center ? A I-800A?

We have your previous I-600A at our office. You are approved to adopt from the Ukraine until February 03, 2001. Your prints are valid until September 17, 2010. It’s not time to renew or extend either of these.

What did you file at the Texas Service Center ?

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did I CLEARLY state that I filed an i600a? did I CLEARLY state what my problem is? you have suspended my application because you want print money when we dont need prints. why cant they just process the dang application and not give me the runaround?

GRRRRR I DID WHAT THEY ASKED

and STILL they rejected my application and want their fee for biometrics. and until they get them my application is suspended. it SAYS if you send a letter stating that they have your prints on file along with a copy of the I171H saying your prints re good when you send your application then they will waive the fee. did they even READ the stinkin letter? did they even LOOK at it? did they SEE those beautiful faces and read that they have special needs and are older wiating children and PLEASE hurry because we already HAVE PRINTS ON FILE? apparently not. call the customer service number and all they can say is email the I600 people, they can not help me on the phone. and oh by the way it can take up to ten days for them to respond. TEN DAYS! thats a lifetime when you are a child in an orphanage waiting for a Mama and Papa to love you. I sent a letter to SPMADOPTION@DHS.gov explaining the problem and now I wait. while it has been mostly smooth sailing thus far I am now upset. yes these things happen. yes its difficult to get the documents and get everything in order. but I thought it was going along swimmingly. If I just sent them the 160 dollars then they would have to schedule us for biometrics which WE DONT NEED. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!! why cant they pay attention? seriously you wonder who they hire. Do they even CARE about their job and the lives at stake? or is it just protocol and paperwork and status quo and who cares who its for? I am feeling very discouraged. ten days is not the end of the world. I know that. but it is very frustrating when you do everything JUST RIGHT and STILL it is rejected.