We have been provisionally approved by the USCIS to bring our little boy home!
I know a bunch of you are wondering… didn’t this already happen?!?
Yes! But that was approval for a non-specific child as described by our home study and this is a specific provisional approval for a very particular little boy. And pending the legal proceedings months from now, this very particular little boy will be approved to come home… to his new home in the good ol’ U.S. of A.
We are allowed to send him a Christmas present though… we are still thinking on what to send to him. Some new clothes and a teddy bear? A musical toy with lots of replacement batteries? We can’t wait to send him a reminder of our love! It still makes my heart heavy to know that he will not be spending Christmas with us this year. I was so sure that he would be with us… but with the constantly changing requirements for bringing him home, we will be glad of travel dates in January… or even February. I just pray that it is not March or later. It just seems like too long to wait.
Hurrah!!!
But the receipt of this provisional approval doesn’t mean the end of paperwork… it was just a step that will lead to the next steps in the process. We have more paperwork to do for his visa! And a few new forms as well that I have yet to learn the purpose of.
So even though it is just a step closer, we are grateful for that step.
And now for a little explanation:
A few of you have noticed that we are no longer calling him Vanyo or even Vanya.
When we met our little bundle of joy, we realized that Vanya just did not fit him. He is 100% a Victor! To call him anything else just felt wrong.
In other exciting news, some of our dear friends are throwing us a baby shower this weekend! We are really looking forward to seeing our dear friends from far and wide that we met during Ian’s grad school and through various connections here in DC. These people are awesome and have been by our side through thick and thin!
No other news though… we will hear nothing of our little Victor until we go to pick him up. No updates, no new pictures, nothing.
We are allowed to send him a Christmas present though… we are still thinking on what to send to him. Some new clothes and a teddy bear? A musical toy with lots of replacement batteries? We can’t wait to send him a reminder of our love! It still makes my heart heavy to know that he will not be spending Christmas with us this year. I was so sure that he would be with us… but with the constantly changing requirements for bringing him home, we will be glad of travel dates in January… or even February. I just pray that it is not March or later. It just seems like too long to wait.
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