Crazy for the Lord: Our Adoption Journey!: My Life! Something I have been working on!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

My Life! Something I have been working on!

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2 comments:

Melissa said...: This is so sweet. I can't believe how big Emma is now & Noah too. She's grown so much just since Noah was born. Beautiful kiddos :)

Love the song playing w/ it too. Who sings it? What's it called?; February 10, 2010 at 5:13 PM
Crazy for the Lord- Our Adoption Journey! said...: Hey! Thank you! She has gotten SO big! Makes me SO sad!
The song is called Amazing and Janelle sings it! :) I love the song! Very fitting!; February 10, 2010 at 6:02 PM

Adoption Timeline

11/2015 Saw Sarah on a waiting child Facebook page/video

12/26/2014 Sent a letter of intent to adopt Sarah

1/20/2016 Heard that we were matched with her in the China system.

1/20/2016 Began the paper work chase.

4/4/2016 First home study visit

4/16/2016 Ben's home study visit

4/19/2016 Brandi's home study visit

4/23/2016 Home check and visit with the kids
5/12/2016 Proofed rough draft of home study

5/16/16 Homestudy approved by our agency

6/1/16 I800-a mailed to USCIS

6/9/16 reviewed receipt In the mail with a lockbox date of 6/2/16

6/16/16 Received fingerprint apts for 6/24/16

6/24/16 Fingerprint apt. Now we await USCIS approval and dossier authentication.

6/29/16 Documents mailed to Washington DC and Houston to be authenticated and certified.

6/30/16 I800A approval. Wait on approval letter.

6/5/16 Got approval letter in mail it had wrong date. Ben called on 6/6/16 to get a new letter sent.

6/13/16 Our agency received our new i800A letter with the correct date. All of our Alabama documents were sent to the Secretary of State in Montgomery and our AZ documents were sent to CA for certification.

6/26/16 Documents back from U.S. Consulate

6/27/16 DTC(documents to China to be translated)
10/10/16 We got our hard copy of our LSC and I800 in the mail.
10/10/16 Mailed I800 off to TX USCIS and our signed LSC back to our agency.

11/21/16 i800 approval

12/12/16 Article 5 Drop off

12/27/16 Article 5 pick up

12/30/16 Art 5 dropped off at CCCWA- wait for TA.

1/6/17 Travel Approval