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the waiting
Chelle
the waiting is the hard part but the only advice i have is that you will get very good at WAITING... waiting for one thing or another. The only thing you can do to keep your sanity is MAKE PHONE CALLS ,,,, call everyday, call your caseworker and simply say "good moring, i just wanted to call and see if there is anything i can do to HELP you speed up this paperwork... i have LOTS of free time on my hands and will do anything you need."
They have excuses for everything... the bottom line is, the workers are understaffed and very underpaid. They deserve much more money than they are paid because i would not want their job. The only way to get through this is to make yourself WELL KNOWN....
once you get your police report back (you already know it is clear) then you will be told you have to wait for your fingerprint report to come back... then you will wait for the follow up homestudy to be done... then you will wait for the ______ get my drift.... face it, by the end of this process you will be VERY good at waiting.... just make sure that ALL your paperwork is in order, KEEP copies of every transaction you do... document EVERYTHING you say and exactly whom you say it to. It sounds a little obsessive but, in the end you have a very impressive diary of all the conversations you have made and it show your interest in this whole WAITING game...
believe me... been there and i KNOW what your going through. When its all done and said... the WAIT is worth it
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