Receipt of our I600!!!

  After checking my mail and spam mail every night and morning for the past week, I e-mailed USCIS  this past Tuesday Oct. 21 to find out what happened to our I600 since it was sent from Hanoi to HCMC on October 7.  After waking up every couple of hours last night to check for either a response to my e-mail or notice of receipt, I finally decided to call the VN field office since I certainly wasn't making any progress via e-mail.  What I found out is that they had an incorrect e-mail address and that the acknowledgment of receipt was dated Oct. 10!!!!  So we are on working day 8 of the 60 days I was told it would take to make their determination.  Of course I am hoping it goes much more quickly than that!! 

Our I-600 has been filed!!!!

                                 

  After we received our referral on August 27 , we submitted our I-600 to our agency.  We have been waiting for our I-600 to be filed, but we had to wait until all the documents were released from the baby's province and orphanage.  The documents had to be translated and there are usually 20 -25 documents per child's case. 

  On October 7, almost 6 weeks after our referral, our paperwork was finally filed with USCIS  (US Citizenship and Immigration Service) in HCMC!!  We are now waiting to receive notice from USCIS for confirmation of receipt of the I-600, but we are finally moving forward in the process :)

And her name is.............

                                   

Yes, we have come to the conclusion that in fact her name is Sophia Rose Thi !!!! After months of discussing the decision is finally made! I, on the other hand have been set on this name from the start. But it took some convincing with the rest of the fam to get my way =], and my Mom liked the name as well. It took us some strange names to go through until we finally got the okay from everyone this morning. I cannot wait until I can see my little sister for the first time. 
She is beautiful! 

--- Laura (Sophia's big sis)

Big Sister is Ready and Waiting!

     

  Laura can't wait to be a big sister!  She has been waiting, hoping, shopping with me for cute baby clothes, reading adoption blogs, and practicing the art of patience for the past two and a half years!!  This summer she got to meet our newest family members.  Two of her cousins are identical twins and they each had a baby this past January!  Eamon(top picture) joined his two older brothers - they live in LA.  Hyla, on the other hand, lives with her mommy and daddy in NYC so we can see her more often.  We need to bring our baby home soon so she can play with them:)