Adoption #2 Timeline

12/23/15 HOME!

12/21/15 Consulate appointment

12/14/15 Adoption finalized!

12/13/15 First Day of Forever Camille!

12/8/15 Fly to China!

12/2/15 TA and CA! We are going to China!!!!

11/25/15 Article 5 drop-off AND pick-up (medical expedite but still crazy fast!)

11/24/15 Cabled & RTF!

11/23/15 DS260 completed

11/20/15 Obtained GUZ# via phone

11/17/15 I800 approval!

11/13/15 Original LOA signed and returned to our agency with additional paperwork

11/12/15 Copy of LOA signed and emailed to USCIS officer (who had not received our I800 paperwork yet)

11/12/15 New and correct LOA arrived at agency and overnighted to us

11/5/15 Hard copy of LOA arrived at agency but with a typo so we have to get a new one issued :(

11/2/15 soft LOA & I800 overnighted to USCIS

10/30/15 Official file is in! LOI (Letter of Intent)

10/13/15 Supp 3 approval

10/12/15 LID! (log in date)

9/23/15 Dossier to China (our second one - long story) - DTC!

9/17/15 Certified and authenticated dossier arrives at agency

9/14/15 Supp 3 receipt date

9/11/15 Miscellaneous dossier items sent to placing agency and Supp 3 sent to USCIS

8/28/15 Received final notarized/official copies of our home study, state certified, and shipped it off to DC for final authentication

8/19/15 Made final decision to say yes and sent our LOI to our agency! Thus begins the wait for the official file (agency coordinator told us she expects it in about 3-4 weeks)

8/17/15 Sent email to agency coordinator with random question and received reply along with a note to please call her on her direct line when I had a chance - I called her immediately. She told me that the other family had decided not pursue the little girl and that if we wanted to review her file it was ours. What!? Crazy! We said absolutely we want to review it!

8/12/15 Our home study is finally officially transferred to our new home study agency and the update can officially be completed.

8/4/15 Received email from agency that the other family was moving forward with the adoption of the sweet one I thought was ours

7/27/15 Saw a little face on our agency's waiting child list and thought, "Oh my word, I think she is meant to be ours!" Sent Jason the link with the message "I want her!" and emailed our agency right away; reply froma agency that another family had already inquired about her and they would put us on the list (they had just photo listed her on their website July 24)

7/26/15 Home study update visit with new HS agency

6/23/15 Officially applied to new home study agency and began process of HS transfer and update; began gathering, filling out, and updating paper work

2/20/15 Applied to and accepted by new agency (placing agency)

2/10/15 - 8/12/15  I'm not going to post the entire timeline or all of the details of our agency switch, but suffice it to say that the whole ordeal was a nightmare and in the process (which should have been simple and straightforward but took months and months) we learned that our first agency is very unethical. I am so glad we left, but it was a very long, difficult, and stressful process.

2/9/15 Made the decision to switch agencies (this decision/process took weeks)

11/18/14 Log In Date (LID)! - but we didn't find out until 11/25

11/10/14 Dossier back from consulate and on its way to China!! (DTC)

10/23/14 Dossier on its way to Chinese consulate!

10/16/14 Dossier paperwork completed, notarized, state certified, and on its way to our agency

10/6/14 I800A approval

9/27/14 I800A RFE (Request for Evidence) = delay (ugh!)

9/8/14 Biometrics (fingerprints) appointment

9/2/14 Started working on dossier

8/14/14 I800A received at USCIS (receipt date)

8/11/14 Home study update completed by assessor and finalized by agency

7/15/14 Home study update visit

6/26/14 Sent in home study update paperwork

6/19/14 Sent in completed contract and addendums

6/17/14 Application approved!

6/12/14 Sent in additional application paperwork

6/7/14  Submitted new application to our original agency

5/10/14 Started thinking about getting back on the crazy international adoption train