Let the waiting begin Posted about over 4 years ago

We are six months into the adoption journey and celebrating small victories to lead us closer to our son!  The first 5 months consisted of frantic paper chasing and the classic game hurry up and wait.  After our dossier was complete, it was sent off to China and we received our official locked in date (LID).  This is a VERY important date.  Our timeline for travel approval and meeting our son w...

DTC - Dossier to China Posted about over 4 years ago

We have completed our dossier and it has been sent to China. We now wait for China to review our information and send back a letter of acceptance. Once we receive the letter, we file one piece of paper with immigration. After that we should receive our travel date to pick up our son Wes! Traveling expenses will be the next major obstacle we will face. We are expecting to be traveling sometime a...

Our adoption just got updated to Child Identified Posted about over 4 years ago

We have officially been matched with Wes and cleared to proceed into our next steps! We still do not have an idea of travel arrangements at this time.  We are praying that paperwork is processed and completed rapidly.We had been waiting for over 9 weeks for paperwork from North Carolina that should have only taken 6-8 weeks according to the information advertised on their website.  Instead of w...