At approximately 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 20th, our 23-month-old foster boy, Lil Bit, became a citizen of the United States!!!
That means 2 things:
- We aren’t harboring an illegal immigrant anymore;
- We have just overcome the largest hurdle in adopting our precious Lil Bit. (except, of course, fighting the State to keep him).
We were hoping to finalize his adoption before Labor Day; however, our caseworker balks at that. Does anything ever move quickly?
Our next course of action is to get our new citizen a Social Security card so that we can file an amended income tax return to claim him as our dependent…
