Home Study Complete!

I am happy to say that our home study visits are finished. Our social worker, D, did our individual interviews that covered our dating and marriage, and parenting styles. The questions were pretty easy and a lot less invasive than I thought. She was here a little over an our again.

As she was leaving I asked if things were okay. She said she sees no problems and that the home study is just to verify things in our application and other paper work that we sent in. She just meets with us and sums everything up in her report.

I called our agency yesterday to make sure our finger prints and child abuse clearances were back - they were in October. Since all was good with that, our social worker needs to write her report and mail it to the NJ office. She told us that she would work on it right away and put it in the mail on Monday! She already had a lot of the report finished with the information from our last visit.

The head social worker in NJ reviews home study reports on Thursdays, so if she mails it on Monday, it should get there either Tuesday or Wednesday and hopefully make the review this week. If not we have to wait until next Thursday. I am going to call next Friday to see if our file made it in time.


After it is approved, it is signed, copied, and notarized. A copy is sent to the main office in Oregon and a sealed copy is sent to us for the I-600A. The main office sends a batch of home studies to Korea on Fridays. It would be great if our report got to NJ in time for Thursday, May 1st and was approved and then made it to Oregon in time to be approved and mailed out on then next Friday, May 9th! I don't think it will happen that fast, but it would be great if we could be HSTK (home study to Korea) May 9th! After HSTK the real waiting begins...