Our homestudy was approved!

Our homestudy was approved through Family Adoption Consultants on Friday July 27, 2012. Louise has been great to work with; very understanding to our timeline, supportive when we worried, and always available to answer our questions when we needed her. Thank you Louise!

Now we send in our I-800A for immigration giving us permission from the American government to bring Cora home. We are hearing that it can take up to 16 weeks for their approval and to get the document we need from them to move to the next step of Cora’s adoption.

All of our dossier documents are completed and waiting so the day we get the I-800A returned we can send (or drive 31/2 hours if we are running out of time) our dossier to the Chinese Consulate in Chicago for Authentication. 10 days to have our dossier processed and returned by mail, same day if we drive. This is all that is left to complete before we can send our dossier to China to finish the process and get a travel date. We have until December 9, 2012 to have all documents to China.

Tick, tick, tick…..