No news is.......NOT good news!!
I have no news. Just this funny little picture. We are finished chasing our last piece of paper and it is in the mail to our homestudy agency. YEAH!!!! Now we just need to get our visits in and hope that they will get our homestudy update finished in a timely manner. After we receive our finished homestudy report, we send it off to the USCIS, (immigration) and wait for our I-171 ( The U.S. governments permission to bring Miller home, currently taking 6-8 weeks) Once we have this LAST thing, we send all of our notarized documents ( 14 total) off to the Secretary of State to be signed off on,(currently taking 2 weeks and up) and then to the Chinese Consulate in Chicago to be authenticated.( currently taking about 6 weeks) Once we have them all back, they will go to our agency to be translated and bound, and then OFF TO CHINA! It is currently taking 3-4 months to get TA (travel approval). Once we have that, they will request a CA (consulate appt.) at the American Embassy in Guangzhou. Once that is official, we will get to actually go to China to bring our precious little boy home. We are still holding out hope that we can get our paperwork to China by December, but...UGH!! SO there you have it. A quick tutorial of China adoption jargon and the process. Keep thinking good (quick!) thoughts!!
posted by Gail @ 4:43 PM
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As I remember, the dates and times they give you are almost always a little longer than it actually takes. The agency I worked with for my first adoption told me they do that on purpose because it keeps the "anxious parent" phone calls to a minimum. I guess if they tell parents it takes 6 weeks for such and such to happen, the parents won't be calling to ask about delays till after the 6th week. But if the agency knows it usually only takes 4 or 5 weeks, then the parnets never get to the point of calling, since they were told it takes 6 weeks. Anyway, I remember how hard the wait is, so keep busy!
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