Fingerprinted. Again.

While it seems like nothing is happening, we are actually having some behind the scenes action. We are currently waiting on our I800-a. Basically, it's immigration approval of our eligibility to adopt internationally, on the US side.
After getting our official I800-a receipt date of 8/29/13 (receipt of our application), next we waited for an invitation to be fingerprinted. We have been fingerprinted before. I'm not sure that your fingerprints change, but whatever. Give us a hoop, we'll jump through it. Apparently these are special fingerprints. We would be invited to come to Indy or St Louis.
Turns out it was St. Louis. Our fingerprint date was 9/25/13, but I had read online that a lot of people walk in early so we went over to St Louis on Sunday night to try to get fingerprinted on Monday. We stayed at the Sheraton next door. I think we may have been on a concierge floor because we had to use our keys on the elevator (still hoping for the ultimate Disney concierge upgrade) but no one offered us concierge lounge access?

The paper was very official looking and said no cameras or cell phone. Jason and I are both the rule following sort so we believed them.

We went next door to the Robert A Young Federal building. I Google image searched for this picture-no camera.



It was actually kind of cool. The office we went to had a huge Department of Homeland Security seal on the door. Would have been a good picture. I'm a little bitter because the employees said it would have been fine to take pictures.

We were able to be fingerprinted early without a problem. The other people there were working on becoming US citizens or permanent residents. It seems like that's a pretty complicated process?? The people behind us were Nigerian. Jason would not let me tell them we were part Nigerian.

We were both fingerprinted without incident. The guy that fingerprinted Jason was married to a girl from Olney that Jason had in school. Small world.

We got official stamps on our forms and we were off.

Breakfast at Denny's and home by noon. Quick trip.

Now we wait some more. Unfortunately this step has been taking about 2 months recently so it could easily be the end of October before we have this approval we need to move on.

We would very much appreciate prayers that the process speeds back up to it's usual pace of about a month. Every day is one more day Penelope is without us.