Our adoption process is actually starting to gather some steam. On Monday, our local adoption agency handed over our dossier to us, for us to then send to the adoption agency in South Carolina which is handling our son’s case. It was a bit surreal to know that this folder contained all that we had worked a year to put together. We overnight mailed it to South Carolina. It should be on its way to China in the next few days. Also, along with our dossier, our local agency handled our updated home study since our son is older than what we had originally requested. With all updates comes the need to get it approved by CIS (the US Immigration Service) through a form I-800A. We overnight mailed our updated home study and new forms to them on Monday. Our original I-800A took 11 weeks! We are hopeful this will be quicker and, in fact, have been told by our case manager that it should take only 2-4 weeks. What CIS mails to us is called an I-797C, a preapproval. There are still many steps to complete in our adoption journey but, in a nutshell, we should be on track to travel to China in the May-July timeframe.
Angie put together a letter for our son, which we emailed to our China case manager earlier today. She will translate it for us and send it back, and we will include it in a care package we are preparing to send him at his orphanage in Beijing. I’d love to be able to know what he thinks when he sees the pictures of his new house and family.
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