Last Wednesday we received our appointments from the USCIS to have our fingerprints made at their field office in St. Louis. The appointments were for Aug. 26, too late to meet our deadline to have our dossier to Children’s Hope International by Sept. 1. So, I called to see about having the date moved up and was told that we could probably just walk in and have them done at anytime. We decided to try on Friday. With traffic delays and the fact that we had to go back home for something, we ended up at the federal building 20 minutes after they were supposed to be closed to the public. We were able to go through security quickly. When we got to the room where they do the fingerprinting, we explained the situation with us trying to meet a deadline, and they were kind enough to go ahead and take our fingerprints, a huge favor. So we were there 21 days early for our appointments and 20 minutes after the building was supposed to be closed to the public. Despite this, we were in and out of the federal building in 10 minutes with our fingerprinting done! We definitely have to give God the credit for this.
Now, we must wait until we have our approval from the USCIS - hopefully soon!
Lori
