Dossier is approved!

That was fast!! Our dossier is on its way to our agency via Fed Ex! It should arrive today!! If all is correct, it will be on its way to Vietnam next week!!! Wow!

It's possible that we may have to wait a bit longer for Baby Wieds! The US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS)and the US Department of State have announced that procedures for submitting the I600 petition will be changed effective Monday, October 29th.
The changes will have adoptive parents receive their referral and then mail in their I600 to Vietnam where is will take approximately sixty days to process the petition. The I-600 is the Petition to Classify an Orphan as an Immediate Relative. This might mean that the length of time between referral and travel will likely increase because families will need USCIS approval BEFORE they can travel. Currently, the I600 is filed AFTER families travel.
This change is being implemented because the US Embassy is seeing inconsistencies surrounding relinquishment and abandonment documents, thus affecting a child’s official status as an orphan. If the USCIS is unsure if a child is an orphan by their standards, a NOID (notice of intent to deny) is issued and parents must submit the required paperwork to have their child’s visa processed. Apparently these I600 submission changes should help decrease the number of NOIDs that are issued.

We think this change is a good one, even if it adds a little bit of time to our wait!