I got some of our papers state authenticated yesterday in Richmond and then handed off everything in our Dossier to the Assitant Stork Courier service managed by Laura and her husband. It was hard to hand over those papers that I have slaved over and cried over for the last 4 months but I know that God is in control. He had a hand in everything yesterday. It was amazing to watch him work.
As we wait for our Dossier to clear the State Dept and the Ethiopian Embassy we silently perpare for the day that our name is added to the waitlist.
Our timeline that lead up to this day:
January 16 - Official Application filed
January 25- First Home Study meeting
Feb. 4th - Second Home Study meeting
Feb. 7th - Third Home Study meeting
March 20th -Picked up finalized Home Study and mailed into USCIS
March 28th - Received notice that USCIS received application
April 6th - Received notice of Fingerprint appt on April 24th
April 9th - Got fingerprinted (They took walkins)
April 24th - Approved for Orphan Visa
April 29th - Received I-171h Orphan Visa in mail
April 30th - Got Letter of Affidavit and Power of Attorney State Sealed
April 30th - Dropped of Dossier at Assitant Stork in Stafford
May 1st - Assitant Stork delivered Dossier to State Dept.
Our agency, Adoption Associates, has been very busy these past few weeks. There has been 13 new referrals. Woohoo!! How exciting for these new families. We are hoping and praying that this trend keeps up when we are added to the list.
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