We received written confirmation that Brad's fingerprints are approved!!! I have a better idea to how the process works from here. Our social worker will send the home study to ICPC in Montgomery who then sends it to USCIS (Immigration) in Atlanta. I was explained that ICPS is like the “middle man” between our Agency and Immigration. Alabama is the only state that has this "middleman". In Every other state the home study goes straight to USCIS and the process isn't as long. The process can take awhile. It is my understanding that it usually takes ICPC about 4 weeks to process the received final home study and Immigration may take up to 90 days. We now have to start gathering documents for our Russian Dossier. Once those documents are together, we just wait for USCIS to get back w/ our approval. We can't send anything to Russia until we get approval for USCIS.

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