A Field Made Ready: Our visa is approved!

Just a quick note to let you know we returned to the embassy today and our visa application has been approved. I hope to have the visa in hand tomorrow afternoon and then travel home Friday morning. If it isn't ready tomorrow afternoon, then I will travel on Monday. Either way, I'll be back home to my kids and hubby in a few short days. We are all so thankful!

Prayers Answered

LoveBug HOME! 3/20/09
Adoption Granted! 1/21/09!
LoveBug's Ghanaian passport ready! 1/12/09
Court date set - should be the week of 1/12-16. 1/8/09
i600a approved! 12/3/08
Referral received! 11/11/08
Home Study report is COMPLETE! We are ready to turn in our i800. 8/1/08
Our second $$ blessing: enough money to pay over half our first installment of fees - due when we turn in our dossier. 5/30/08
The home study process is complete and we've been approved! Now we just wait for the final report. 5/13/08
Our Home visit was a bit anti-climactic! Very casual and enjoyable conversation. 5/2/08
Our tax refund arrived! How we can pay our agency fee and get the paperwork started. 4/27/08
Found our home study agency. 4/25/08
Our first $$ blessing: enough money to pay the home study and our Immigration application has come in! 4/20/08
Approved to work with Hopscotch! 4/18/08
We've chosen our agency: Hopscotch Adoptions. We feel very comfortable with them and got excellent confirmation that they are our agency when we talked this morning. Now we wait to be approved. 4/ 18/08
Confirmation of the country where we've chose to adoptL: Armenia! 4/16/08
We are a "GO" for the adoption! Kids are very excited and so are we. 4/15/08

Phase 1 Timeline

~~1. Decide to adopt~~ 4/11/08
~~2. Decide on country~~ 4/16/08
~~3. Gather info from agencies~~ 4/08
~~4. Interview agency~~ 4/18/08
~~5. Decide on agency~~ 4/18/08
~~6. Submit application to agency~~ 4/18/08
~~7. Begin collecting needed documentation for I-800A~~
~~8. Submit Agency agreement and fee~~ 4/28/08
~~9. Seek references for Home Study provider~~ 4/08
~~10. Interview Home Study providers~~ 4/08
~~11. Have Home Study provider approved by Agency~~ 4/08
~~12. Collect needed documentation for Home Study~~ 5/08
~~13. Complete Home Study~~ 6/08
~~14. Submit I-600A (application to adopt with Immigration service)~~ 11/08
~~15. Receive referral!~~11/08
~~16. Receive approval from USCIS to bring orphan into US.~~
~~17. Submit dossier to Ghana.~~11/08

Phase 2 Timeline

Because this is a new program, some of the details are still being determined. Thus, this list may be changed or reorderd from time to time.

1. Dossier is sent to Ghana. Dossier documents prepared for court.
2. Child referral is given to family.
3. Social Welfare conducts medical and social investigation on the child to be adopted. Child then becomes legally (rather than informally) available for adoption.
4. Dossier is filed in court and court date is requested.
5. Her passport (Ghanaian) filed for on her behalf.
5. Court date! Either final adoption decree or interim adoption decree is recommended in "favorable opinion".
6. Court process is completed and adoption decree is issued. Child now has our last name and is our daughter!
7. Travel dates are set based on paperwork readiness for US Embassy and US Embassy appointment availability.
8. We travel to Ghana to file our i600, visa interview...and BRING HER HOME!

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Our visa is approved!

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