Hello, USCIS?? It's me again . . .
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Yes, our I-171H has officially expired. It died this past Sunday, February 18.
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I was sorely mistaken and "from memory" thought it expired sometime mid-April! So, when I went to get it out of our dossier folder yesterday, to make a copy of it I was shocked to see that it was expired - the day before!! I counted out those 18-months on my fingers about 6 times to make sure my eyes and mind weren't playing tricks on me.
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So, while I knew we needed to get it sent in and make sure it got to processing, I thought I had some overlap time! So now I'm jittery to get it done. Used to be that everything was sent to Dallas and processed in Dallas. But now-a'days you send it to Dallas and they send it up to Oklahomie to process it. Happily, though, they have been processing them in about 3 weeks. So, hopefully everything will be ok. What's 3 more weeks in this crazy scheme of things!
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Anyway, glad to have that thing on it's way. Hope there are no more ice storms up in Oklahomie! Don't want anything to slow down my sweet I-171H!!
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Oh the stack that application packet made. It's nearly an inch high!
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Again I say to those just starting out - get a copier/printer I don't know what we'd do without it! The $100 for it, in the whole scheme of this adoption is but a trickle in the bucket-o-funds.
**Edited to answer questions from comments:
Yes, we just filled out the I-600A again, submitted the $545, marriage license, (you'll need divorce decree if you're divorced), passport copies for proof of citizenship, homestudy, copy of social worker's license, copy of agency license, along with copies of the I-171H that has expired and copies of the proof stamp that we had our fingerprints redone in October, I wrote a cover letter.
Written at 12:47 PM by Suz.
6 comments
6 Comments:
Blogger Calico Sky said...
So sorry to hear that you have to get it done again.
Thanks for the great adoption tip!
3:05 PM  
Blogger U.N. Mama said...
What a pain! :o/ Still praying!
5:58 PM  
Blogger Maggie said...
Bummer. Hopefully it will come back soon and it will still be hot from USCIS' printer when you get your court date.
6:26 PM  
Blogger Robin said...
We just had fingerprints redone and the new 171 was here in a week, hopefully it won't take much longer than that for the full thing!
6:55 PM  
Blogger Lisa said...
Did you just fill out the same I-600A application that you did the first time, or is there a different form for a "renewal"? I'm about to have to do mine too. Just did the fingerprints recently. Lisa
8:20 PM  
Blogger CA Momma said...
I sooooo second the printer/copier investment advice! You'll need it again for your second and third adoptions too. ;-)
10:12 PM  
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