Well, today our social worker met with us to relicense us as foster parents. It was a pretty simple meeting, taking about a half hour to forty-five minutes. She had to reask us a bunch of questions (do you have smoke detectors on all floors, you will promise to feed, clothe, and care for a child placed in your home, etc?). Aside from that, we were able to ask her a bunch of questions we have (which doctor should we send the medical health report of the referral to to have him/her give the okay? what things should we ask the pediatrician when we interview him this week to determine if he'll be the kids' doctor? How do we go about the readoption process once we get him home from Ethiopia (the adoption will be finalized in Ethiopia, but many/most families also have the adoption re-legalized in the States)?
The other thing I asked that totally stumped her was why Kathee and I need to be re-fingerprinted for the United States Customs and Immigration Service. Here's the complete stupidity of the situation. Our fingerprints with the USCIS are good for like 15 months. So they will need to be re-upped by August. Here's the question, as my fingerprints haven't changed in a year, why do I need to drive all the way to Naperville, IL (2.5 hours from here)? Why can't we just pay the money and have them re-search both of us to make sure we haven't committed any crimes in the last 15 months? See what I'm saying? It's not that I don't understand why they have to re-search us, which is fine to make sure we are still "clean," but why do they need to redo the fingerprints themselves...THEY DON'T CHANGE?!!!
Anyway, just more joys of dealing with government bureaucracy!
Oh, and I just thought of this. Some of you may be wondering why we need relicensing in the first place, and wondering why we are foster parents. We have been licensed to be foster parents in case the adoption isn't finalized in Ethiopia. He would come home with us, and would fall under the "foster child" title until the adoption were to be finalized, which couldn't then legally happen until 6 months after he came to live with us. So there you have that.
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Maybe they want to make sure you didn't burn off all your fingerprints to try to take a false identity. But since your name/identity has no crime related to it, that wouldn't make any sense and would just be very painful.
...aren't you glad I read you blog? :)
Having a rough time saying anything intelligent about the re-fingerprinting thing. What's the point of fingerprints if it's that they DON'T CHANGE? Glad they made sure you know about the responsibility of clothing your child...
Love, Sharon
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