1. Our returned original China dossier. The one I secretly hoped our old adoption agency had forgotten to withdraw when we sent our new one in to our new agency.
2. Max's acceptance letter to toddler school for the fall.
3. A "Smile Pinki" dvd from Smile Train.
4. Some information for our Alaska trip this summer.
So, you're wondering what it takes to adopt from China - Here's what we've been doing for the past two years. October 2007 - We first seriously investigate adopting from China November 2007 - We sign up with our first adoption agency December 2008 - The paperchase begins We gather passport photos and copies of our passports, photos of our family and home, a letter of petition to adopt, our birth certificates, our marriage certificate, medical reports from our physicians, letters from our employers, a financial declaration, local background checks, and 5 letters of reference January of 2008 - We have our first homestudy February 2008 - We file our paperwork with immigration March 2008 - We get our immigration paperwork back and send everything off to the Secretary of State and then to the Chinese Consulate in Chicago to be certified and authenticated April 2008 - Our finalized dossier is sent to our agency and then on 4/22 to China May 8 2008 - We receive our first log in date (LID) May 2008 - We finalize our decision to adopt from the waiting child program and get on our agency's list July 2008 - Our agency loses access to the waiting child list from China July 2008 - February 2009 - We wait February 2009 - We make the decision to sign on with another agency and immediately are matched with our son. Februar 16, 2009 - We send a letter of intent (LOI) to adopt him. February 23, 2009 - We receive pre-approval (PA) to adopt our son Now we scramble to reassemble updated copies of the same information we assembled in December of 2008 and we update our homestudy. March 2009 - We resend everything to get certified and authenticated. March 21, 2009 - Our second completed dossier is sent to China and our original dossier is withdrawn March 30, 2009 - Our LID (log in date) April 14, 2009 - We find out our LID
oh, getting a dossier back must be hard. but the other deliveries are putting you on track for the future!
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