Grandfathered Form I-600A Affected
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced yesterday that prospective adoptive parents already in the process of adopting a child from a country that has implemented the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Hague Adoption Convention) who filed a Form I-600A, Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition, prior to April 1, 2008, and who have received the one time no-charge extension, may file one additional Form I-600A, and continue to proceed with their intercountry adoption through the “orphan” process. The new Form I-600A must be filed before the current approval expires, and only if the prospective adoptive parents have not yet filed the corresponding Form I-600, Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative.
Well, the petition worked! Finally something good that USCIS did. If only they could make it so that we only had to file for the paperwork once with no expiration until the adoption is completed. It still sucks that we'll be continuing on with all of this nasty paperwork and extra money outlay, but I guess it could be worse if we had to transition over to the I-800 form. The I-800 form is only good for 15 vs 18 months (with the I-600) and requires a more major home study rewrite which would have cost us more money and more extensive background checks. As it currently stands, we may still not be completed with our adoption by the time our 3rd I-600A form expires. Our current one expires in April 2009. Gotta see if there's a way to drag it out a bit... Keep your fingers crossed for us!
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