July's referrals are starting to arrive. Dates covered appears to be 11/8/05-11/14/05. During all this, I was trying to correct a clerical mistake on our I-600A. When we arrived for our fingerprinting appointment (biometrics), the check in person noticed that my name was recorded as Kristina Fielder rather than Kristina Wu. Amazingly I was able to get my fingerprints done by having our agency fax a copy of our marriage certificate. That was followed by emails to Chicago USCIS and Hand in Hand. Both responded promptly. We were instructed to submit the message in writing with our signatures. I am still waiting for all sort of problem to occur because of this, but I know that in the end it's just a lot of paperwork and phone calls. Perhaps this is how God leads us to our daughter since he can't do the matching for CCAA. Even though I am still complaining about our fingerprinting delay last time we adopted, we would not have been matched with Esther if it were not for the delay.
7/05/2007
6/25/2007
Fingerprint Invitation
June 25, 2007
I wasn't expecting our fingerprint invitations from the USCIS for another 3-4 weeks. On the "received application" letter, they indicated that our home study needed to be submitted prior to being given the invitation for fingerprinting. Either Hand in Hand submitted our home study a lot faster then they said, or the USCIS is not really following their rules. Whatever. I am just glad that we got it. I have a feeling that things may move pretty fast for us even with the current wait. We'll see.
6/19/2007
Logged in At USCIS
June 19, 2007
Received a letter from USCIS saying our filed was logged in June 11, 2007. However, no fingerprints until home study is sent. Vickie says in couple of weeks. Just as well. Spoke with Sonia from Hand in Hand. She feels that we need more documents to prove that not only was I born in Taiwan but is actually ethnically Chinese, since the certificate of citizenship does not state ethnicity. I pointed it out to her that there are no document that states ethnicity from Taiwan, most Taiwanese are just Taiwanese not a mixture of Irish/German/etc...Granted that the population both in Taiwan and in China is actually genetically diverse, politically speakingk we are just Chinese as only Chinese can be... how about looking at my picture? I suppose I could have been half Japnese? Anyways, we will be sending them the same stuff as last time, which is no problem with me. There are certainly enough evidence that I am about as Chinese as one could get short of being born in mainly China. But hay, according to PROC, Taiwan is definitely part of China so no problems...
