Praying this is our last pre-referral update!!!

Today we picked up our updated homestudy and overnighted it via FedEx to USCIS (immigration) to have our parameters officially changed to 3 years old (instead of up to 24 months). She'll likely be a year older that whatever age she is when we meet her once we finally bring her home. While this is still considered very young for an international adoption these days, this was a big change for us...but we feel good about things. We know that Chareyl and her rep in Haiti have been tirelessly advocating for us and there is a potential match that is close to referral that they are hoping will be matched to our family. We don't know anything about her, but we are so anxious to get our referral so we can see her sweet face. We are hopeful that we could get a payment request soon (since we know that the document in her file that needed to be fixed is complete)...and once a payment request is sent a referral should happen shortly thereafter. 

So! There was a brief minute there where we had something to DO that we had control over decisions, following up, double-checking paperwork (we've learned the hard way to do that, and I'm glad I did since we caught an error before submitting it)...now we're back to just waiting. And praying like crazy of course.

Here is a picture of Max and Lincoln after we picked up our amended homestudy. Max is pretty pleased with himself about the bunny ears.

We know there is a still a long road ahead, and there will be more papers to fill out...but we are sooo hopeful that we won't have to renew anything with our I800a yet again. Hopefully ever. I hope the next time we need to communicate with USCIS it is to apply for our I800 regarding our specific child's immigration application!