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Our homestudy is complete....WOO HOO!! We're still waiting for Villa Hope to send a copy of it to Anne at Gladney but that should be done this week.
Also, we sent off our I600A on Saturday. Villa Hope wanted us to wait and send it off after our last home visit so that's what we did.
This week we are hitting the dossier pretty hard. I'm hoping to have it ready to send off for Natalie to double check it all by the end of the week. We'll see...
We haven't applied for passports yet but plan on doing that this week as well. Those have to be back before we can send our dossier off so we will be waiting for a few weeks for that.
Think it's possible for us to be on the waiting list by the beggining of March? That's the goal....
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timeline
August 24, 2007 - Sent application to Gladney
September 12, 2007 - phone interview with Judy
October 11, 2007 - Mailed off Application packet to Gladney
October 22, 2007 - physicals for homestudy & fingerprinting for ABI clearances
November 5, 2007 - mailed off all homestudy paperwork
December 17, 2007 - recieved FBI clearance for dossier
December 27, 2007 - first homestudy visit
January 6, 2008- homestudy complete
March 3, 2008 - recieved Gladney APPROVAL
March 28, 2008 - CIS fingerprint appointment
March 29, 2008 - UAB International adoption clinic
April 16, 2008 - travel shots
April 30, 2008 - recieved our CIS approval
May 3, 2008 - overnight dossier to Gladney
May 5, 2008 - officially went on the waiting list
October 17, 2008 - REFERRAL!!!!
December 3, 2008 - got a call with courtdate (1/27/09)
January 27, 2009 - courtdate (failed)
February 19, 2009 - 2nd courtdate (SHE'S OURS)
March 7, 2009 - leaving for Ethiopia :)
March 9, 2009 - In our arms forever! Met Mercy 1st time
March 14, 2009 - Came home from Ethiopia
July 20, 2009 - Readopted Mercy in Alabama
November 9, 2009 - applied for her SS#
November 10, 2009 - applied for her citizenship
September 12, 2007 - phone interview with Judy
October 11, 2007 - Mailed off Application packet to Gladney
October 22, 2007 - physicals for homestudy & fingerprinting for ABI clearances
November 5, 2007 - mailed off all homestudy paperwork
December 17, 2007 - recieved FBI clearance for dossier
December 27, 2007 - first homestudy visit
January 6, 2008- homestudy complete
March 3, 2008 - recieved Gladney APPROVAL
March 28, 2008 - CIS fingerprint appointment
March 29, 2008 - UAB International adoption clinic
April 16, 2008 - travel shots
April 30, 2008 - recieved our CIS approval
May 3, 2008 - overnight dossier to Gladney
May 5, 2008 - officially went on the waiting list
October 17, 2008 - REFERRAL!!!!
December 3, 2008 - got a call with courtdate (1/27/09)
January 27, 2009 - courtdate (failed)
February 19, 2009 - 2nd courtdate (SHE'S OURS)
March 7, 2009 - leaving for Ethiopia :)
March 9, 2009 - In our arms forever! Met Mercy 1st time
March 14, 2009 - Came home from Ethiopia
July 20, 2009 - Readopted Mercy in Alabama
November 9, 2009 - applied for her SS#
November 10, 2009 - applied for her citizenship
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11 comments:
Thank you so much for your words of encouragement. The outpouring of support has been a lifeline. Your sweet prayers mean so much. Congrats on finishing your home study. What a relief.
Congrats to you- each step is such an accomplishment!!
Duuude! You are making some serious progress! :) Yay!
My little piece of input is that you get your passports expidited. We didn't because we did it way early and thought we had more than enough time but we ended up waiting for them for a month and a half loooonger than we should have. It was wretched to be at a stand still for allmost 2 months becasue we were waiting for those suckers.
Yay!!! You are getting so close!
Woo Hoo!
Congrats on finshing up your home study...one step closer!
Blessings,
Kristy
Congrats on the progress! Isn't it nice to check something off the list?!?! Now you're that much closer! Hope you're having a great week...
becca
Hi Laura,
I saw your comment on my blog about paperwork. I'm sure you can relate. Isn't it crazy? Great job finishing your Home Study. That must feel fantastic. Don'tcha just love those big chunks of progress? I look forward to checking in on your progress. Best of luck.
Lisa
www.my2ethiopiangirls.blogspot.com
So excited! In a weird way, I miss doing all the paperwork. I got a little charge out of having all those little "projects" to do. I really miss it!! I'm withyour friend Tara...I would go ahead and get my passports ASAP!! I just can't wait for your next post to see what's happening!! I'm thrilled for you guys!! Keep us posted!
Buffi
Wow - that is cool that you can authenticate your dossier yourselves. We will both be in the waiting mode before long ;).
hi.. im a friend on the Wheelers' and i know Amy and Clint as well. i was just reading that you sent you I-600A in with your homestudy. that's what my social worker advised me to do as well... i'm anxious to see how that works for you!
Thank you Laura! I basically broke down in tears today after thinking about all my comments and encouragement from you and people I don't even know. I did not even realize how much it helps! The little things and words matter the most to me now. I would love to get together for coffee with our adopting buddies. Great idea! I love you friend - you are amazing!
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