TA’s for the September 29th NSN referrals began arriving today. Congrats to those families who are one step closer to being able to buy those airline tickets!

Some agencies are getting word that their March people are out of review. Not all agencies are saying this, and in fact at least one agency knows their March people are still being reviewed. As usual, if your agency says you’re out of the review room then you are, if they don’t know then there [...]

Okay, the explanation of why the six year window is the correct one is, as was stated in the comments yesterday, the seemingly correct one. The explanation seems to be that the USCIS will allow one extension for every filing, and they don’t see asking for an extension as filing. And, they are going to [...]

It’s expected, right? The wording on the release says “….prospective adoptive parents already in the process of adopting a child…. who filed a Form I-600A… prior to April 1, 2008, and who have received the one time no-charge extension, may file one additional Form I-600A, and continue to proceed with their intercountry adoption“. That wording [...]

I’ve seen the releases from the USCIS, and it seems clear that they are merely allowing one extra filing, not multiple extra filings. Here is the wording. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that prospective adoptive parents already in the process of adopting a child from a country that has implemented the Hague [...]

JCICS has announced a ruling that families with an active I-171H “will be able to proceed with their adoption under the I-600A process if they take certain steps while their approval remain valid”. They go on to say that there is the one time free extension and then families must pay for any further extensions. [...]