Even More Paperwork

We received the snail mail packet yesterday, all of which is to be completed and returned together with our filled out Personal Data Sheets (that 16 page magnum opus from my last post.) The new forms consist of:

• Financial Statement form
• Medical reports for each of us, that need to be completed by our doctor, and include results of HIV and Tuberculin tests (I guess that's for tuberculosis? Is that a blood test?) Interestingly, they want our heart rates, but not our cholesterol numbers.
• We need to send them directions to our house and a map
  
• Authorization to release employment verification information that our supervisors have to sign (thank God they sent that to me, rather than directly to my boss, lest it get lost in one of many black holes around his orbit)
• We have to make an appointment with Sagem Morpho to get fingerprinted
• We have to send in photocopies of our certified birth certificates and marriage certificate
• One photo of what is to be the baby's room (hopefully they will be ok with the baby's room looking right now like a giant walk-in closet with windows), and one picture of each of us separately (you know this is going to take me longer to take the picture than to fill out the 16-page form)
• Begin filling out the I600A immigration form. I read some scary stuff about this one, for instance, if you fill it out incorrectly, you have to resubmit it, with the $700 fee each time. They are supposed to help us with this, however

Once all that stuff is in order, they will invoice us for the home study, and then it usually takes 6-8 weeks to get the fingerprint clearances, medical reports, and personal references before they set up the appointment with the social worker to come to our house. We have our work cut out for us, at least.