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How Old is Oliver
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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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6 comments:
Super! I'd love to see him if you get a chance.
Blessings,
Angie
Yay for updates!!! Can't wait until you can share pictures with everyone.
Wow your little guy must be plump...ours is suppose to be about 7 months old and is only 15 lbs..but way more than the 11 at referral..would love to see your pics
Our first court date (Nov. 1) got bumped and our new one is Dec. 1st. Maybe we will be travelling together...We are also with Dove. :) Are you going to stay in the guest house? Prayers for passing court. We have had our referral since Aug. 15th...amymshafer@hotmail.com
Hope we get more pics sooner than the middle of Decemeber:)
Gotta love them updates. We got one too!! Ours is now 8 months and close to 20 pounds - our chunk of LOVE ;-)
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