Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Reposting Our Adoption Timeline

I have not posted our timeline in a while. I know that timelines helped me out a lot when we were just starting. So, here it is:

April 19, 2006: Signed with our agency
April 20, 2006: Mailed in our i-600a
April 21, 2006: Ordered certified copies of my birth certificate
April 25, 2006: Mailed in our Home Study application, documents, and fees
April 26, 2006: Requested certified copies of our marriage certificate (Bucks County, PA)
May 1, 2006: Scheduled our Home Study appointments
May 1, 2006: Recieved certified copies of our marriage license
May 1, 2006: Started my baby shower registry
May 2, 2006: Received certified copies of my divorce decree
May 3, 2006: Joe got his employment verification letter
May 3, 2006: Mailed out Joe's passport application (expedited service)
May 3, 2006: Ordered certified copies of Joe's birth certificate
May 4, 2006 Mailed reference requests to friends and family
May 4, 2006: Requested notarized letter from bank
May 4, 2006: Made doctor's appointment for physical and physician's letter
May 4, 2006: Got my fingerprints for FBI Clearance
May 4, 2006: Requested my Employment Verification Letter
May 5, 2006: Recieved my Employment Verification Letter
May 8, 2006: Dawn's doctor's appointment for physical and physician's letter
May 10, 2006: Our first Home Study visit
May 12, 2006: Dawn's Sagem Morpho fingerprinting appointment
May 13, 2006: Joe's Sagem Morpho fingerprinting appointment
May 25, 2006: Our second Home Study visit
July 12, 2006: Received completed Home Study (after receiving earlier and requesting corrections)
July 21, 2006: Received fingerprint appointments from USCIS
August 2, 2006: Fingerprinted
August 5, 2006: My Baby Shower!
September 7, 2006: Received our I171h!!!
October 16, 2006: Dossier sent for translation
October 30, 2006: Dossier back from translation and being prepared for Embassy
November 1, 2006: Dossier sent to Embassy
November 16, 2006: Dossier left Embassy to Kaz

4 comments:

The Cook said...

Hey girl! We should have our 171 very shortly...it is going out tomorrow. I am so excited! Our docs should be at the embassy within a week. Yeah. Maybe we will go at the same time. How fun.

Anonymous said...

It seems like you are on track. We started ours Feb 10th and traveled Aug 6th. It is getting closer for you..and before you know it, you will be on a plane and you will say, "wow..........that didn't seem like that long". You will be happy and forget about the long wait. Its all soooooooo worth it. Love, Tam

Melissa said...

I hope you get a referral soon :o)

Anonymous said...

I cannot wait to meet your new baby! I remember all of those long days waiting to finish out the paperchase & waiting for a referral! I'm following your journey! And thanks for your support & encouragement to our journey with Sofia....it means more to me than words can express!