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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Legal Parents!

We may not have her home yet, but we are LEGALLY the proud parents of this beautiful, precious little girl!

4 comments:

MissyOctober 25, 2012 at 11:00 PM
She is adorable! Congrats!
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AshOctober 25, 2012 at 11:58 PM
CONGRATULATIONS! She is gorgeous:) I can't wait for you to have her home with you.
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TeamDavisOctober 28, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Oh my goodness! She is beautiful! Congratulations Lisa! I am so happy for you!
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RuthOctober 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM
Congrats!!!! I know you guys have waited so long for this, and I pray that the wait to get her home goes by quickly!
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Adoption Timeline

Steps without timing:
-Completed and mailed the adoption application and the home study application.
-I have my passport now, and we have sent back more papers to both the home study agency and the adoption agency.
- We received two manila envelopes full of papers from our home study to start working on for them before we can do interviews.
-We finished our online training.
Steps with timing:
-We mailed our home study packet of papers on 4/4/11 -Finished our interviews 5/16. Got a call that our home study was received by our adoption agency 5/26/11. I-600A sent off week of 6/13/11.
-Received our I171H in the mail 7/25/11.
- Told to prepare our dossier because a child may be available "soon" 5/16/12. -Sent our dossier to our agency 6/25/12.
-Got notice our dossier was en route to Ghana 7/6/12
-Got our referral call!!! 8/23/12
-PASSED COURT! LEGALLY PARENTS! Wow!- Week of 10/15/12
-Met our daughter, and filed our I-600 without a birth certificate on 11/29/12.
Amazingly got I-600 approval on 12/11/12!

Told her passport was ready on 2/18/13

Visa Interview 3/11/13, needed more papers

Papers submitted 3/19/13, and issued print date of 3/22/13