Excitement about Halloween

Big sister Carli is super excited about Halloween. So excited that she decided she wanted to design her own costume. She literally drew it out, determined colors and then we went to the fabric store to buy all the stuff. Pretty creative. Of course, she is hoping the payoff will come in the currency of candy!

Happy Halloween everyone.

One step closer...hopefully

This morning in my email was this message:

"Dear Mr. & Mrs. Groff,

This is to inform you that this office received your response to our RFE on 10/24/08. It will take 30 days for our office to review these evidences. We will contact you as soon as a determination is made on your case.

Regards,
Adoption Unit
U.S.CIS-Ho Chi Minh City"

So they "got it" and now we wait....

Fingerprint appt. today...again

Well, it has been 16 months since our last fingerprinting so we have to have them done again...on a beautiful Saturday at 8 a.m.! So we are off to have that done. Hopefully, it brings us one step closer to Pearl.

At least we have a Halloween party this afternoon...partaaaay on!

RFE Response Done!

Well, we completed our RFE response today--all 106 pages!!! I am making copies today and then going to the Fedex office. I am mailing the official response to Vietnam and Thailand today. All the cc: versions will go out on Monday. We firmly believe we have not only answered all questions for the USCIS but provided evidence to back it up.

We now hope for a speedy APPROVAL!

Affidavits

We received our affidavits today. There were a total of 8 documents which includes a search for the birth mother, hospital investigation and orphanage interview. We now need to complete our rebuttal document and overnight it by October 22nd. Eric has started the framework and we have a plan so now we just need to do it!

Again, I cannot say how invaluable the other four RFE families have been! They have been so supportive of each other and I hope we will be able to meet face to face someday soon.