His Hands, His feet: 11:35pm

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Still haven't heard anything.

It's 11:35pm.

I am perfectly calm and serene.

Yep.

Calm.

That's me.

Timeline To Two

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Made the final decision to adopt after months of prayer

Friday, February 12, 2010
Signed contract with adoption agency and contract to begin home study

Saturday, February 13, 2010
Announced to friends and family that we were adopting through a really fun guessing game on Facebook. :)

Wednesday, February 28, 2010
Precious boy #1 File Locked! LOI sent in!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
First Home Study visit(though 99% of forms needed for HS completion are already done including requesting all state clearances....all 8 states....thank you Air Force!)

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Second & Third Home Study visit

Tuesday, March 16, 2010
PA! (17 days from LOI)

Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Fourth and final Home Study visit and lunch at the Cheesecake Factory to celebrate!

Thursday, April 16, 2010
All dossier docs county certified and Secretary of State authenticated! Just waiting on the home study!

Monday, April 19, 2010
Home study done! It's at our agency getting reviewed!

Friday, April 30, 2010
Fingerprints released from fingerprint purgatory(8 1/2 weeks for FP processing)

Monday, May 3, 2010
Final draft with prints sent to agency

Monday, May 10, 2010
Home study officially approved

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Drove to home study agency to pick up completed home study and overnight-ed I-800A to USCIS!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Found out Joey and another precious boy that we fell in love with months ago are in the same foster home and are best friends. Sent 8.2 million emails.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010
All dossier docs except Home Study and Immigration clearance sent to Chinese Consulate for Authentication.

Thursday, May 20, 2010
Agency #2 says yes, they will release kiddo #2's file!

Monday, May 31, 2010
Found out all of our dossier documents were rejected at the C.Consulate. They don't take Fed-Ex right now.

Wednesday, June 7, 2010
Our dossier documents finally return to us. We decide to use a courier for the Consulate this time. It worked, over $300 and a week later we had all of our dossier documents sans the home study and I797-C forms authenticated!

Monday, June 14, 2010 am
Sent our dossier sans the home study and I-797C forms to our agency for review.

Monday, June 14, 2010 pm
Found out that we received a request for evidence. Our dossier isn't going to China this week. This was a hard day.

Monday, June 21, 2010
Request for evidence resolved! Our I-797C is on it's way to us and we are trying to get our dossier to China this Friday!!

Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Everything that could go wrong. Did go wrong. Our dossier is not going to China this week.

Monday, June 28, 2010
Home Study and immigration approval are with the courier! Our agency should receive it all on Thursday, dare I say we may be DTC Friday?!

Friday, July 2, 2010
DTC!

Thursday, July 8, 2010
LID!

Wednesday, July 21, 2010
6:01pm
Received a phone call that we have verbal permission from the CC*AA for the dual adoption. Cried like a baby.

Friday, July 30, 2010
After 9 days of both agencies working out the deets, we submitted the required paperwork to have his file officially transferred to our agency.

Monday, August 23, 2010 8:11am
Received a phone call that the CCAA is skipping PA for Jacob and moving right into LSC "asap"!

Thursday, September 23, 2010
LSC X 2! (ASAP in Mandarin apparently means 4 weeks)

September 27th, 2010
I-800 mailed

October 27th, 2010
I-800 approved(adjudicator called to let me know, we haven't yet received it in the mail however)

Saturday, October 30th, 2010
I-800 approval arrived in the mail

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Cabled!

Friday, November 5, 2010
NVC letter/DS-230 & LSC's back to China!

Friday, November 26, 2010
Article 5!

TA: December 15th, 2010

Gotcha Day: January 17th, 2011

Consulate Appt: January 25th, 2011

Sunday, September 18, 2011

11:35pm

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