Home Study...Check

We received our home study in them mail today. February 4. It's been kind of miraculous to work with our social worker, Heather. She has been a gift from God wrapped up in a social worker package.
Now on to USCIS or the The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (under the Department of Homeland Security). As soon as we got our home study in the mail, I wanted to drop everything and drive to town and fedex our application to the USCIS. But, after checking on it, there are no FedEx pick ups today so it wouldn't get there any faster. Tomorrow when we are in town for church, we will stop by the FedEx store and ship this baby.
The application we are turning in is called the I-600a, Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition. When approved, it will give our future children permission to be brought into the US. The form is one of the most important documents that adoption families receive. The document of approval is called the I-171H. That is the ultimate goal of the application we are sending on tomorrow. The first thing will receive, though, is notification that they received it. Then we will be mailed an appointment time and location for our fingerprinting. (We were fingerprinted last month for our home study, but we have to do it again.) Then, we should see the I-171H in our mailbox. All of this should take between 1.5 to 3 months. You all might assume that I am hoping we get this sooner rather than later. And that assumption would be correct.
My goal initially was to have our dossier ready at the beginning of May. We will hopefully have everything else ready when we receive this, but we have to take the original I-171H with us to Honduras so we will have to get a "notarized copy of original." Then we have to get that apostilled with the SOS in NM. I've been told that since we live hear the capital, we might be able to make an appointment with the Secretary of State and they will apostille it while we wait. Wow, that would be great.
I'm reading a lot on adoption lately and I am really looking forward to an adoption conference Jonathan and I are going to mid-February.  So, we continue on.