Comments on: Dossier Completion, Take 2 http://www.americanmamacita.com/blog/dossier-completion-take-2/ "Gringa" by birth | Latina by adoption | La Vida "Spangles" Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:33:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Kim http://www.americanmamacita.com/blog/dossier-completion-take-2/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Kim Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:05:55 +0000 http://www.americanmamacita.com/blog/?p=239#comment-150 Well "10 months" includes the homestudy process, and our homestudy agency (here in MD) required us to have all the homestudy docs in before our first visit. And E.S. wants "fresh" (within the last 6 months) birth certificates, etc), so we had to get those two times - once for the HS, then again for the dossier - when we had done them simultaneously for Guatemala, last time). E.S. has a psych testing/ IQ testing requirement for the dossier, too, so it took a couple months to find a psychologist who would do the tests without seeing us as ongoing clients, book the testing appointments, then book the follow up appointment to go over the results and pick up the reports she wrote. Also, now that the Hague is in full effect, you have to file and I-800 (not a 600), and all I-800's go to one repository and the homestudy report must be included with the app (not sent in later), so you have to wait till the complete end of the HS process to file with USCIS, and it takes longer (3 months in our case) to get your 797. Which is of course required for the dossier. So basically, since we had to run everything one after another, rather than concurrently, it took 10 months. And now that I've written all that, I think I have another post coming someday soon! :) Well “10 months” includes the homestudy process, and our homestudy agency (here in MD) required us to have all the homestudy docs in before our first visit. And E.S. wants “fresh” (within the last 6 months) birth certificates, etc), so we had to get those two times – once for the HS, then again for the dossier – when we had done them simultaneously for Guatemala, last time). E.S. has a psych testing/ IQ testing requirement for the dossier, too, so it took a couple months to find a psychologist who would do the tests without seeing us as ongoing clients, book the testing appointments, then book the follow up appointment to go over the results and pick up the reports she wrote.

Also, now that the Hague is in full effect, you have to file and I-800 (not a 600), and all I-800’s go to one repository and the homestudy report must be included with the app (not sent in later), so you have to wait till the complete end of the HS process to file with USCIS, and it takes longer (3 months in our case) to get your 797. Which is of course required for the dossier.

So basically, since we had to run everything one after another, rather than concurrently, it took 10 months.

And now that I’ve written all that, I think I have another post coming someday soon! :)

]]> By: Aimee http://www.americanmamacita.com/blog/dossier-completion-take-2/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Aimee Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:01:06 +0000 http://www.americanmamacita.com/blog/?p=239#comment-147 Oh my goodness! At least you were able to take care of it quickly!! I am not looking forward to the paperchase. Why does El Salv's paperchase take so long? I think we did GTs in 3 months but I have seen a lot of ES timelines with very long paperchases. We aren't to that point so I haven't seen the reqs. Also - I would love to hear how long you are anticipating the entire process to take...I know there are no gaurantees in ES, just curiouse what you are thinking. Sorry for all the questions...just excited to have found someone else doing it!! Feel free to email me at aimeerwatson@gmail.com Oh my goodness! At least you were able to take care of it quickly!! I am not looking forward to the paperchase.

Why does El Salv’s paperchase take so long? I think we did GTs in 3 months but I have seen a lot of ES timelines with very long paperchases. We aren’t to that point so I haven’t seen the reqs.

Also – I would love to hear how long you are anticipating the entire process to take…I know there are no gaurantees in ES, just curiouse what you are thinking.

Sorry for all the questions…just excited to have found someone else doing it!!

Feel free to email me at aimeerwatson@gmail.com

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