After weeks of anxiously waiting for our home study to go to Korea, we received word this past Thursday that our home study will be on its way to Korea this upcoming week. In the world of Korean adoption (at least with the particular agency in Korea we're working with), HSTK (home study to Korea) is a very important date - it means that we are officially waiting for a referral!! Our referral might come in a matter of weeks, or more likely, in several months - there's just no way to know. Regardless of the time line from this point forward though, we're thrilled to have reached this milestone and to have a bit of a break in the process while we wait to be matched with a child.
In other adoption-related news, we received our fingerprinting appointment from USCIS (better known as Immigration) yesterday!! August 18 at 8am -- considering we have about an hour and a half drive to get there, that will be an early, early morning for us.
Fingerprinting should be the last bit of adoption "work" to do before we receive a referral. So, we're starting to turn our attention to some of the projects we'd like to get done before welcoming our child home. I'll be posting more info on those in the next few weeks.
