171 Approval!
We got our 171 approval today. Actually, I drove down and picked it up from our local BCIS office. The processing time for this was about twice as fast as Gwen's 171 and I can only assume that it's because I sent our I600 with a sad little picture of Madeline and a personal plea that they expedite us. I figured it couldn't hurt and it sure seems to have helped!
By the way, our 171 wasn't really as cool at the image above. I spruced it up a bit since it's too much of an important document to look so boring!
posted by Donna at 5/03/2006 03:18:00 PM
16 Comments:
Congrats!!!
I like your version of the form is so official looking!
Yeah! Congratulations, it won't be long now until you'll be holding your new daughter :)
Yay!!!! I had a feeling it would come today!
Hurry home, Madeline!
Shana :)
Congrats! You "spruced it up"?? Ha! I need some of your computer skills!
Lisa
WOW that's much different looking than the one we got for Cady. Pretty, even.
Great to hear everything is going quickly.
http://homepage.mac.com/andersenscott/The_Cady_Chase/
Donna, The way every thing has moved so quickly for you to bring Madeline home is amazing. God wants this little girl in your house! How long was that, from fingerprint to 171? Seemed like about 2 weeks! Our 171 for Gwen took 7 weeks... the timing is always just right, though, isn't it?!
awesome
now does this mean you can go pick up Maddy sooner????
This is so exciting...
Congrats
Amy
It's wonderful when things happen quickly, hopefully the rest of the process will go just as fast.
At the rate you are going, that little gal will be home in no time at all.
YAYYY!!!
We got ours yesterday too!!! :)
Now, THAT'S what I call a 171!! By the looks of it, it came with balloons and a parade too? :o)
Congratulations, BTW!
Yay~~
Hey! Thanks everyone!
Congrats on yours, Ryan and Heather!
Val, There was a crowd of applicants at the BCIS office when we picked up our 171. Does that count as a parade? Hee hee.... and Gwen was blowing spit bubbles which are almost as much fun as balloons! :) :)
Donna
Awesome!! CONGRATS
MAAV
Yay! Congratulations!
What office do you use? I was surprised how quickly our 171 came in the Summer of 2004, from the San Jose office about which I'd heard horror stories. It seems kind of random as far as I can tell, but a cute picture can't hurt!
Andrea
Andrea & Jeff, It was the San Jose office. Gwen's 171 took 3.5 months from the date of the I600. This one took exactly one month!
:)
Donna
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