Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD: the fruit of the womb is a reward. As arrows in the hand of a mighty man; so are the children of the youth.Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
God knows=)
So my walk to the mailbox today FINALLY produced our letter from USCIS!!!! Our appointment is for April 26th in Atlanta=) It's a small step..but a step none the less=)!!!!!!
YEA!!!! I'm so excited for you guys. I would definitely get going with the dossier packet, because we received our approval within 2 weeks of being fingerprinted. We actually lined up all of our dossier documents, had them notarized, and had our social worker review them so when we received our approval we just had to get a couple more things notarized and took everything in to get state sealed. So, it was at HQ within 2 days of receiving approval. (I do have the advantage of living in GR though) CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Thanks=) Yea I was supposed to get my dossier packet today but my SW had a ton of meetings today=( So we are going tomorrow to get it!! I just can't wait to get working on SOMETHING...it drives me crazy not doing anything and just waiting...so i'm pretty sure the wait till referal will send me to the looney bin=)
“The Bible calls debt a curse and children a blessing. But in our culture we apply for a curse and reject blessings. Something is wrong with this picture.” ~Doug Phillips
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Decided to Adopt Internationally..11/15/09
Agreed upon Ethiopia...11/25/09
Recieved Application....12/9/09
Finished Hague Training ... 12/12/09
Application turned in to BCS....1/20/10
Homestudy Interviews.....2/28/10
Home Visit finished.....3/5/10
Homestudy Finalized.... 3/24/10
Sent off our I-600A....3/30/10
Got Fingerprinting Apt.....4/13/10
Fingerprinted for USCIS....4/27/10
USCIS I-171H came .......5/12/10
Sent papers to be State Sealed.....5/13/10
Dossier State Sealed..........5/17/10
Copies made....5/18/10
Sent for Authentication....5/19/10
Dossier sent to Ethiopia.....6/18/10
Travel Vaccinations......6/29/10
Recieve referral for a sweet 8 month old little girl......10/19/10 (4 months and 1 day wait!!)
Accept Referral and submit acceptance documents...10/21/10
Paperwork submitted to Court ...2/16/11
Assigned Court Date .....3/23/11
Travel to Ethiopia for our May 19th Court Date
Begin updating our Homestudy...5/25/11
Recieved new Birth Certificate......5/27/11
Obtain a new passport for our baby girl .... 6/7/11
Submitted to Embassy......6/7/11
Embassy asked for more info....6/16/11 Embassy clears our case/ assign us a date 6/23/11
Travel to Ethiopia to pick up our baby girl....7/6/11
YEA!!!! I'm so excited for you guys. I would definitely get going with the dossier packet, because we received our approval within 2 weeks of being fingerprinted. We actually lined up all of our dossier documents, had them notarized, and had our social worker review them so when we received our approval we just had to get a couple more things notarized and took everything in to get state sealed. So, it was at HQ within 2 days of receiving approval. (I do have the advantage of living in GR though) CONGRATULATIONS!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks=) Yea I was supposed to get my dossier packet today but my SW had a ton of meetings today=( So we are going tomorrow to get it!! I just can't wait to get working on SOMETHING...it drives me crazy not doing anything and just waiting...so i'm pretty sure the wait till referal will send me to the looney bin=)
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