Our Visa Expires
Our visa approval expired yesterday after eighteen months of validity. Our renewal application was submitted before the deadline, and as I've written before, we are waiting to hear from Homeland Security if it will be extended.Masha wrote to us yesterday, knowing that the visa had expired. She is very concerned that this document in our dossier is now outdated, and that the SDA (State Dept. of Adoptions) will deny our request to adopt. We wrote back again to reassure her that we're moving as fast as possible on this end. Homeland Security will not let you apply for renewal until shortly before the visa expires.
Masha also asked us to send $600 by Western Union for her translation work. Our dossier, like all such documents, is very thick, and she spent a great deal of time converting it to Ukrainian for us.
posted by Stahlkes @ 6:16 PM
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$600 is good for translation, I think ours was $1000 LOL! Will pray for DHS to send yours quickly. We had trouble with them as well this time around it took three I-171hs to get my name correct! Last year was quick and painless, must be the new Hague processes slowing things down...God Bless!
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