One More Step

Our Home Study Is Done... all required paperwork (both our personal statements complete with multi-page questionnaires...) done; all supplemental paperwork (job letters, financial statements, proof of insurance, medicals, fingerprints, photos, etc.) done; all supporting documents (certified copies of birth certificates, marriage certificate, etc) attached; and all references....done! All sent to our agency via UPS... and confirmed today that it was received.


Hooorrrraaayyyyyyy!!!!!
 
 
Now we wait. We wait for them to review it all and let us know if anything is missing or needs to be updated. If all is well the home study package is approved and we are visited at home by 3 ghosts (Christmas past, present, and future....). Uhhh....No...wait…that's wrong. That's Charles Dickens....lol. Okay, WE will be visited approx. 3 times by 1 social worker....who is actually very nice (and not at all a ghost). And, if our visits go well we may only need to do two.
 
Once we are cleared by the social worker we will officially be H.S.T.K. (aka Home Study To Korea). This is a milestone marker. Most families celebrate when they are HSTK because then (and only then) they are OFFICIALLY placed on the waiting list for a referral. While waiting we MUST file two sets of paperwork with the US government for approval of our adoption. This paperwork is needed in order for us to travel to bring back our baby, and for our baby to enter into the United States.
 
One more small step on the road to forever...