Yesterday an optimistic hope of mine was confirmed. A lady on my local adoption list received her USCIS approval only 3 weeks after fingerprinting! I thought I was being optimistic by counting on 2 months (many in my state have waited up to six months after printing!). But they did a big clear out on Good Friday and I think they may be caught up. I had a secret hope that being caught up meant that they would push out the approvals quickly in order to STAY caught up for awhile. We were one of the first groups fingerprinted after the clearing-out so we might benefit! The lady who received approval was fingerprinted just two weeks before us. If we get our approval in two weeks, we could receive it between my birthday (May 6) and Mother's Day! This is very good news for us but sort of sent us reeling. We were comfortably stagnant! Now we are considering changing agencies (ours is still not active in Vn), we are finalizing our documents to get ready to certify the week our approval comes, getting ready for a referral. Wow, things can change very quickly!

So today will be busy doing a lot of the things we thought we'd be doing this week NEXT month! Hurray for progress!