Tide Guy & I traveled with the Tide to Columbia, SC. They beat us. All the experts predicted Bama would win, but would have to struggle. They were half right and half wrong. We lost, but did struggle. Bama played horribly and South Carolina capitalized on all of our mistakes. This was our first regular season loss since 2007. The South Carolina fans are not good winners. Well, actually, the adult fans are not good winners. The students were whooping and hollering like they should. The adults (age above 35) yelled and screamed obscenities at the Bama fans. No class....at least from the adults. Disappointing.
On an up note, we met Verne Lund*quist (CBS college football commentator) at our hotel. We talked to him three different days. He was the nicest guy and talked to us for a long time each day.
Via UPS, we mailed in all of our paperwork except for the completed home study on Thursday, October 7th, 2010. Of course, our deadline was October 10, which was a Sunday and Monday (the next day) is a holiday. We barely made it.....again. Our home home study still isn't complete, but we included a letter stating it would be in the mail soon. Maybe in 18 months, we will not wait til the last minute again. Maybe in 18 months, we will be very close to referral?? I doubt it.
Fall is here. At least on the calendar. We still have temperatures in the high 90s. The mums are blooming and will probably be dried up and dead by the end of the month.
Lots to do today. I am still unpacking from South Carolina. I dropped Tide Guy off at the airport on the way home from SC, but am picking him up at another airport Wednesday. We are going to see Carrie Underwood and spending the night in Nashville. We will be home Thursday, but will leave again Friday for a weekend in Tuscaloosa for Bama's homecoming game.
More later,
Tide Gal
Showing posts with label Homestudy update. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homestudy update. Show all posts
Monday, October 11, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Here we go!!!
We have officially started our home study process. Yesterday, the social worker came to update our paperwork. Since this was our third visit, she completed her questions in a matter of a few minutes. Then, she walked through our new house. Done. Easy peezy. We did ask some questions about domestic adoption which we will probably consider and do quickly. Once she writes her update, this portion of the home study will be complete. It will then be mailed to USCIS with other paperwork and we should receive our fingerprint appointments soon.
It seems like China had a few good months as far as the number of referrals. But, we should have heard something this month and there are no rumors floating around. So, they may be slowing down again. Speculation is China is close to the quota of referrals and they are slowing down so they don't refer too many. We may never know.
In football, Alabama is now 3-0, but we play our first SEC game against Arkansas on Saturday. Since it is an away game, we will stay home and watch it in our media room.
It seems like China had a few good months as far as the number of referrals. But, we should have heard something this month and there are no rumors floating around. So, they may be slowing down again. Speculation is China is close to the quota of referrals and they are slowing down so they don't refer too many. We may never know.
In football, Alabama is now 3-0, but we play our first SEC game against Arkansas on Saturday. Since it is an away game, we will stay home and watch it in our media room.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Updating on the Update
We had our homestudy overnighted to our state capital's city for review and approval on April 2, 2009 with hopes to have it to CIS in Atlanta by our cutoff date of April 10. 2009. Unfortunately, "the worker" was out sick and just today reviewed and approved our homestudy. Since tomorrow is our cutoff date and the state won't overnight it, we won't make our date. The reason they won't ask the state to overnight the packet is they already requested our paperwork be expedited due to our close due date. I guess they don't want to push their luck or ruin chances of requests in the future.
Our social worker suggested we have our agency call or e-mail CIS to notify them our paperwork is in the mail. Hopefully, we will still qualify for our "free" update and fingerprinting. Our agency did e-mail a request for them to accept our homestudy. They are also searching for a phone number, too.
We are still waiting to hear back. We asked the company that did our homestudy to check with the state this week. We asked several times, but they didn't want to bother the person. So, if CIS doesn't accept this, we will have wasted money ($$), time, and sanity on this "free" extension.
Fingers are still crossed that CIS will accept our homestudy one day late. They already have the rest of our paperwork (letters, copies of birth certificates, marriage license, etc) that we had to send them.
Tide Gal & Tide Guy
Our social worker suggested we have our agency call or e-mail CIS to notify them our paperwork is in the mail. Hopefully, we will still qualify for our "free" update and fingerprinting. Our agency did e-mail a request for them to accept our homestudy. They are also searching for a phone number, too.
We are still waiting to hear back. We asked the company that did our homestudy to check with the state this week. We asked several times, but they didn't want to bother the person. So, if CIS doesn't accept this, we will have wasted money ($$), time, and sanity on this "free" extension.
Fingers are still crossed that CIS will accept our homestudy one day late. They already have the rest of our paperwork (letters, copies of birth certificates, marriage license, etc) that we had to send them.
Tide Gal & Tide Guy
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