I think she gets cuter each time I look at the pictures!
We read over the forms that were sent to us by our agency. We need to fill out a Letter of Intent to Adopt a Special Need Child (LOI) and a Prospective Adoptive Parent sheet. Once CWA receives these forms, they will translate to Chinese and send to the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) for pre-approval (PA). The current wait time for PA from the CCAA is approximately 6-8 weeks. It is then possible that the final approval (travel approval) for our adoption will be received 4-5 months from the time of PA. So, going by these numbers, it could potentially be August before we travel. Let's hope for a little earlier!
Apparently the CCAA has moved to an all-new electronic system, and this is the first group of special needs adoptions that our agency will be dealing with in the new system. So, we'll be guinea pigs. Perhaps timing will be a lot different? We'll have to wait and see.
I also had a little time to go over some details regarding our travel. I am slowly accumulating a long list of questions for our case worker. :-)
Our I-171H approval form from USCIS looks as though it should be fine and not need updated... it expires 9/21/08. However, our fingerprints will expire in April. We'll need to update those. I guess I'll be looking into that soon.
Today we went to church. One family at our church is almost finished with the paperchase for their dossier. They'll be requesting a sibling group from Ethiopia. In fact, the wife is the one who recommended our adoption-consultation doctor. It was neat to share our stories with them. (You can find their blog at www.growinginfaithandfamily.blogspot.com).
Until next time (tomorrow? see how I finally have lots to share?), God bless!
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