Frustration redux

I didn't hear from the social worker last night. I'm not sure what to do. It has been two weeks since we last sent documents to her for the homestudy. I guess I should call Great Wall and ask them to follow up on her, but then again, that's like going over her head and if you are relying on one person to give you the okay to adopt a child, do you really want to piss her off? She will also be our SW for the six month and twelve month follow-ups once we have our daughter, unless we request another SW, I guess. I don't think we can get another SW for the homestudy unless we undergo another round of interviews, so we really need this one to finish up the homestudy.

What to do, what to do....

I just went to the website for the CIS field office we will use and as of June 15th they were processing I-600-A's from March 15th. So 90 days to start processing? I've read that it can take as long as five months. FIVE FREAKING MONTHS. I hope our office doesn't take that long. I'm beginning to wonder if we will ever be DTC.

Yes, I'm feeling pretty down and out right about now. I know we'll get through this eventually, but the wait from DTC to referral is so very long that I wanted to get DTC asap. Now I feel like I am stuck in some weird rut, grinding my wheels.

I guess I should busy myself by trying to get my hands on a current marriage certificate, which we will need. Need to hunt down the necessary county office for that. It's the last document we need besides the application letter to the CCAA which I need to write.

Sigh.