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Hi. My husband and I are adopting from Kazakhstan. I am filing our I-600A on Monday and our completed homestudy should follow within the next two weeks. I was just wondering if anyone out there could give me an idea on the wait time at this particular office. We are pretty anxious to get everything done. Thanks! Have a great weekend!Julie
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We are adopting from China, but we also went through the Atlanta office. I can give you our time frame, but our homestudy went in quite a bit later, so I don't know how closely this will work for you.
We mailed our I-600A on Feb. 14. Within a week or two, we had our fingerprinting appointment letters. Our appointment was on March 9. Our homestudy was mailed sometime during the last week of April, and it took around 3 weeks or so to get our I-171H.
When it gets close to the time that you feel you should be getting your I-171H, there is a fax number where you can contact the Atlanta office to check your status. They got back to us very quickly when we contacted them.
Hope this helps!
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We had a quick response regarding appt for fingerprinting (all in January), but there was a hold up because of the fingerprinting (state level) for our homestudy (nothing to do with USCIS). But once the homestudy was FINALLY sent to USCIS, we received our 171 in less than 10 days.
Good luck!
D.
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My wife and I are adopting from China and having our home study, home visit tonight. Our SW said he would have our home study completed tomorrow. We will then overnight the home study to USCIS in Pittsburgh, they already have everything else. Does anyone have experience with wait times at this office. ThanksDon
We had to transfer our file from another state and already had our 171H in hand at that point. So, our situation was a bit different. But, Officer Sandino (the orphan unit officer with the Atlanta office) recieved our updated homestudy last Tuesday, reapproved and re-issued our 171H that same day as well as cabling the Embassy with the information. We recieved the revised approval in the mail on Thursday.
Again, our situation was unique. The child in the foreign country was free and clear for travel and the immigration process was holding up our departure for a medically fragile child. But, I've been told that this officer is extremely effecient and helpful for all files going through the Atlanta office. Our local homestudy agency says her typical turn-around time is about 2 weeks (or 10 business days).
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