Today also marks 3 weeks until our court date (November 30).
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Timeline
12/11/09: Flights booked. We leave 12-31-09 and return 1-9-2010.
12/9/09: Travel dates received! We're to be in Ethiopia by January 3rd!
12/4/09: Find out we passed court---we just don't know the date (yet).
12/1/09: Receive 2nd update and 2 more photos of Oliver (but no word on outcome of court date).
11/30/09: Court Date!
11/10/09: Receive update and two photos on Oliver.
10/31/09: Receive notice of our court date-- November 30, 2009.
10/9/09: REFERRAL!
5/26/09: Referral & Travel Training with Agency via conference call
4/28/09: Our dossier arrives in Addis Ababa!!
4/24/09: Dossier is sent to Ethiopia!
4/8/09: Dossier arrives at our agency; sent for authentication in D.C.
4/7/09: Send completed dossier to our agency.
4/1/09: Received our I-171h approval!
3/21/09: Fingerprinted at USCIS--waiting for I-600 approval.
2/18/09: Mailed home study to USCIS--waiting for fingerprint notice!
2/17/09: Received final home study.
2/4/09: Received draft homestudy for review.
1/21/09: Mailed off final documents and references to homestudy agency; awaiting draft copy of homestudy.
1/14/09: Mailed in I-600a (w/o homestudy)
10/7/08: Send back contract to agency (forgot to initial on a page).
9/29/08: Mail notarized and signed agency contract and concurrent adoption agreements between Ethiopian and China adoption agencies.
9/23/08: Third homestudy visit.
9/16/08: Second homestudy interview.
9/9/08: Phone interview with agency; officially accepted into Ethiopia program.
9/5/08: First homestudy visit.
8/27/08: Get fingerprinted for homestudy agency.
8/7/08: Application received; send out reference requests for approval into Ethiopia adoption program.
8/5/08: Mail application to Dove Adoptions International.
8/4/08: Decide to proceed with concurrent adoption from Ethiopia; find local homestudy agency to complete Ethiopia homestudy & update China homestudy; speak to our China adoption agency about concurrent adoption
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5 comments:
I couldn't agree more! We need more photos of our children!!! Maybe I should fly over there and take some myself:0 jk....only 21 more days until they are officialy ours:)
And I can't wait until you pass court and can share these photos with the rest of us :-)
Hi Shannon,
So very excited for all you!!! It almost seems surreal to see posts that court is coming up in just a few "short" days( I know, the longest "short" days of your lives :-) We've not yet heard on a court date, but we're trying to get everything in order here at home, and I'm trying to do the same at work. I teach first grade, so I have some transitioning to do with them, too. Would you like to share photos via email? If so, you can email me at ministree333@yahoo.com
Blessings,
Angie
Shannon,
How are you going about booking your flights? Are you using a travel agency?
Thanks,
Angie
I think we are going to book our flights directly. We will probably fly Emirates.
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