A little movement....BIG EXCITEMENT!

Wow!  Last week we received news that SeJoon/Nathan's legal paperwork had been received by the agency.  This is good news for us because this means that we can now file the I-600 form.  This is a petition form to make Jeremy and I both immediate relatives of Nathan until we bring him home and officially become his mommy and daddy (of course, we all know we already consider ourselves to be this:).  When I got online on the US Customs and Immigrations Departments website to look at what the form requires of us, I couldn't get past the first page that reads:

I-600, Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative
Purpose of Form :

This form is used to classify an orphan, habitually resident in a non-Hague Convention country, who is or will be adopted by a U.S. citizen as an immediate relative of the U.S citizen to allow the child to enter the United States. The petition is filed by the U.S. citizen who is adopting the child.

The words in bold literally brought me tears of joy reading them.  The agency says that although this is not a travel call, this is definitely one step closer to getting that phone call.  This makes me feel extremely overjoyed!  The process seems to still be moving along at a snails pace, but we are so hopeful that it will speed up over the summer months to come. 

Also, we received new pictures this week.  What a wonderful week for the Romine family!


I think right here he was saying, "I want you Brandy Romine to be my mommy!"  ha!  Maybe just wishful thinking!