USCIS...check...Dossier...check

We continue to make great progress with our paperwork.  I just mailed our USCIS paperwork last week.  This is sent to the US Government to approve us for bringing a foreign child into the country.  Although, before our child sets foot on American soil he or she will have already become a U.S. Citizen.  We will receive a letter from our government with an appointment for biometrics.  This is a fancy word for really awesome fingerprint identification test that makes a person feel like they are part of the FBI, or a wanted criminal.  After said appointment has passed we will then receive our FDL (favorable determination letter), which tells Ethiopia that we are cool with the US, so we are cool with them.  We also have the rest of our paperwork completed.  Our dossier is packaged and ready to send!  We are so thrilled with what seemed like a monumental task in the beginning has now been accomplished.  There is just one problem.  We need to raise the funds in order for the dossier to be sent to Ethiopia.  We are forming new fundraising ideas in order to raise these funds.  I will post more in the near future.  We know that the funds will come.  We have hope!