I haven't blogged about our adoption for almost 4 months, but that's because almost nothing has really changed until just recently.
We received our approved immigration in the mail right after we got home from our vacation to NY. The next Monday we had to get it notarized and then sent off for state certification, which took about a week. Then we mailed it to AGCI the last week of July, who in turn sent it to DC to be authenticated. As far as we know, it is still in DC, though we should be hearing something any day now!
Once that paper comes back from DC, authenticated, then they package our whole dossier together and send it to China, where the Chinese government looks over it and approves it on their end. Once that happens we are given a log-in date (LID), which means we are officially eligible for a referral of any child. We were told to expect about a 6-12 month wait until we receive a referral, but I am so tired of waiting, so I can't even wrap my head around that. I'm operating on a 6-12 day hope right now!
However, there is a tiny problem. Well not a problem, really, but definitely a hassle. When we applied for our immigration approval, we still had valid fingerprints left over in the system from our Ethiopian adoption that hadn't expired yet, so instead of having to wait for a new fingerprint appointment and have to do that all over again now, we asked them to just transfer those over to our China adoption. Come to find out, when you do that, the immigration approval that would normally be valid for 15 months is only valid until those fingerprints expire, which for us is March 22, 2015. So, now we are going to have to reapply for immigration by the first part of January to ensure there is no lapse in our immigration approval status. This would not be such a big deal except that we have to submit our homestudy with it and our homestudy can't be more than six months old at the time of submission. Our homestudy was finalized in May, so that means we're going to have to do a new homestudy update as well. UGH!
SO......I am boldly, confidently praying for an August referral so that we would definitely travel before our immigration approval expires in March. We cannot travel on an expired immigration approval or our daughter wouldn't be allowed back in the country with us. This is not such a far reaching prayer request that it's almost impossible, although I know NOTHING is impossible with God. I believe what I am asking for is feasible. Will you pray with me? Remember: August referral!!!
Someone posted something on FB the other day that I just loved. It said "At the end of our adoption process we might not be able to brag about our awesome agency (or paperwork process, etc), but we will be able to brag about our awesome God!!" So true!
We received our approved immigration in the mail right after we got home from our vacation to NY. The next Monday we had to get it notarized and then sent off for state certification, which took about a week. Then we mailed it to AGCI the last week of July, who in turn sent it to DC to be authenticated. As far as we know, it is still in DC, though we should be hearing something any day now!
Once that paper comes back from DC, authenticated, then they package our whole dossier together and send it to China, where the Chinese government looks over it and approves it on their end. Once that happens we are given a log-in date (LID), which means we are officially eligible for a referral of any child. We were told to expect about a 6-12 month wait until we receive a referral, but I am so tired of waiting, so I can't even wrap my head around that. I'm operating on a 6-12 day hope right now!
However, there is a tiny problem. Well not a problem, really, but definitely a hassle. When we applied for our immigration approval, we still had valid fingerprints left over in the system from our Ethiopian adoption that hadn't expired yet, so instead of having to wait for a new fingerprint appointment and have to do that all over again now, we asked them to just transfer those over to our China adoption. Come to find out, when you do that, the immigration approval that would normally be valid for 15 months is only valid until those fingerprints expire, which for us is March 22, 2015. So, now we are going to have to reapply for immigration by the first part of January to ensure there is no lapse in our immigration approval status. This would not be such a big deal except that we have to submit our homestudy with it and our homestudy can't be more than six months old at the time of submission. Our homestudy was finalized in May, so that means we're going to have to do a new homestudy update as well. UGH!
SO......I am boldly, confidently praying for an August referral so that we would definitely travel before our immigration approval expires in March. We cannot travel on an expired immigration approval or our daughter wouldn't be allowed back in the country with us. This is not such a far reaching prayer request that it's almost impossible, although I know NOTHING is impossible with God. I believe what I am asking for is feasible. Will you pray with me? Remember: August referral!!!
Someone posted something on FB the other day that I just loved. It said "At the end of our adoption process we might not be able to brag about our awesome agency (or paperwork process, etc), but we will be able to brag about our awesome God!!" So true!
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