Well we started this process in depth early this year. Once we saw our soon to be child on a list through an agency it changed things drastically buta ll involved have been great in getting us this far.
Feb.2009
Start the adoption process, apply with a local agency start pre paperwork
March 2009
Start homestudy process and begin education requirements for a Hague Country adoption. In this case Mexico.
April2009
Continue with homestudy and education, get all of the necessary paperwork together for CIS applications
May 2009
Homestudy is complete Class part of education done, still have some on our own reading to do.
June 2009
Early June apply to CIS for I800A, get receiving notice and fingerprint appointment about a week later
Late June Find child on another agency waiting child list in China. After much thought we decide we want her to be apart of our family and initiate work with this agency and our original agency to amend homestudy and get process started.
July 2009
July 1st is fingerprint appointment
Mid July get notice from CIS for more info( I forgot to but birth Certificate copies in packet! DOH) Got our I800A approval later in the month based on amended homestudy for China adoption.
Late July get our pre approval from CCAA in China to proceed with adoption.
August 2009
Early August dossier is complete and on its way!
We sent a care package to our future daughter in China with goodies for her, her foster parents and foster brothers and sisters.
More as we progress!
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Short Update
Dossier is complete, all is notarized and it was neatly packed up and sent to our agency today for the final steps at the Chinese Embassy before sending to China. Looking down the home stretch here. Hopefully it won't take a long time. More psots when we know more.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Approval
We just got our I797C in the mail today. This is our approval to proceed with the adoption of our soon to be daughter from China. It is what you get after sending in fees and paperwork for an I800A. So the journey continues. Hope to have our dossier in the mail by mid to late next week as most of it is done minus one form I am getting Monday!.
More later
More later
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Picture time
Ok, not pics of our daughter in waiting, those will have to wait, keeping that private. But some pics of Ms Sadie. She is becoming a mess, but all in a good way!
From top down
Yes it is a SadieBug
I love chocolate
Alot
I have mommies boxers on hahahaha
Friday, July 24, 2009
Big Big Change of Plans!!!!!
Ok we started this process of a second adoption oh Feb. of this year I think. We had decided on Mexico as we had a fondness for the country( I lived there in 1990). The main reason was Vietnam is now closed so not an option and waits in other Asian countries were to long. Why Asian, not for the trend reasons at all, instead Sadie is from an Asian country and we fely having a sibling who had that in common could be a good thing. However diversity was not an issue either for us with a different region.
Anyway we had been on some waiting children lists and on one of them a girl from China who was an older child caught our attention. We inquired and then off on a whirlwind adventure where we changed countries, dealt with the issues of going on with that and moving forward. This was not done on a whim. We talked to doctors, other parents of older adoptive children, friends in the adoption business etc. In the end we decided this child was meant to be a part of our family. She is a healthy child and I really do not ant to give many details at the moment as I just want to keep it a family thing and will post more the closer we get. I will just say she is female if you have not figured that out yet and she is older than 7.
Where do we stand? We are pre approved from the CCAA in China to adopt this child. We have our homestudy complete and all of our dossier except a couple of things. One is the I800A and I just received word today it is approved and we should have official paperwork sometime next week. As we get closer I will leak out more details but for now I will just say she is in Guangzhou and we hope to have her as a member of our family lat ethis year or early next. Stay tuned for updates!
Anyway we had been on some waiting children lists and on one of them a girl from China who was an older child caught our attention. We inquired and then off on a whirlwind adventure where we changed countries, dealt with the issues of going on with that and moving forward. This was not done on a whim. We talked to doctors, other parents of older adoptive children, friends in the adoption business etc. In the end we decided this child was meant to be a part of our family. She is a healthy child and I really do not ant to give many details at the moment as I just want to keep it a family thing and will post more the closer we get. I will just say she is female if you have not figured that out yet and she is older than 7.
Where do we stand? We are pre approved from the CCAA in China to adopt this child. We have our homestudy complete and all of our dossier except a couple of things. One is the I800A and I just received word today it is approved and we should have official paperwork sometime next week. As we get closer I will leak out more details but for now I will just say she is in Guangzhou and we hope to have her as a member of our family lat ethis year or early next. Stay tuned for updates!
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