CIS Approval!

Today I broke down and called US Citizenship and Immigration Services to check the status of my adoption file. The adoption officer kindly told my impatient, anxious self, that my petition to adopt an orphan from Ethiopia had been approved! The document showing this approval (the sacred I71H) will be in todays mail—the last document I need to be placed officially on the wait list will be in my mailbox, notarized, and off for authentication by the weeks end!