Homecoming

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Time Line

2004 We realized God had placed on both our hearts a desire to adopt from China.
6/2005 We submitted our application to Chinese Children Adoption International.
12/2005 Our paperwork was received and logged into China's adoption center.
9/2006 Our paperwork passed the review room.
2/14/2007 We accepted the referral of An Hong from the Waiting Child Program.
2/19 We sent our letter of intent for An Hong.
3/6 We received pre-approval from China.
3/7 Josie An celebrated her second birthday!
3/9 We received our I-171H for the second time (immigration paperwork).
3/12 Our agency received the letter for confirmation which China sends when our file is taken to the match room. We will sign and return this to the agency ASAP (done 3/15).
3/16 We sent our last documents: the authenticated adoption petition addendum and the home study addendum! CCAI should receive it Saturday and then it can be sent to China!
3/28 We received our travel approval from China! Now we just wait out the trade fair and the week off for China's government workers and we can go!
4/? We have our finalized travel plans and have booked all our tickets.
5/3 We leave for China.
5/8 We receive Josie (Chloe's day was 4/8).
5/19 We should be home.

Timeline for other China adoption folks (in code):
LID 12/30/05
MCC 1/06 and 4/06
R 2/14/07
LOI 2/19/07
PA 3/6/07
LOA 3/9/07
TP2 3/29/07
CA 5/18/07