The Dunkle Family Six - Blog: June 2012

Shay's Time Line:

12/11/13 Saw her picture for the first time and contacted agency
12/12/13 She is part of an orphanage partnership and does not have her file completed yet, but is 'on hold' for us!
1/27/13 Homestudy sent to agency for review
2/6/14 Homestudy approved by agency!
2/12/14 I800A receipt date
3/11/14 Fingerprinted for I800A
3/19/14 I800A approval! 35 days!
3/24/14 Received approval. Wrong address recorded!
3/26/14 Received corrected I800A aproval
4/2/14 Dossier documents completed- notarized, certified and authenticated at NY. Sent to agency
4/4/14 Agency realized wrong fees quoted previously. Have to resubmit prior to DTC which is only done on Fridays.
4/11/14 DTC!!!!!! Yay!
4/21/14 LID!!!
4/23/14 Our daughter's file is "completed at the orphanage level and is at the provincial level." Still waiting for it to be released to our agency and then to us.
6/25/14 CCCWA received Shay's file
7/9/14 BAAS received batch of files, but ours wasn't included.
7/18/14 LOI/PA Finally received Shay's file! Praise God!
8/4/14 Received word that we are OOT (Out of translation)
9/11/14 Our dossier is reviewed and forwarded to the Matching Room!
9/22/14 LOA!!!!
9/23/14 Sent our I800 application to USCIS
10/7/14 I800 Approval! (great birthday present for mom!)
10/10/14 Rec'd GUZ number
10/14/14 DS260 paperwork completed online
10/15/14 PDF/ NVC Cable
10/16/14 Article 5 Drop Off
10/30/14 Article 5 Pick Up
11/4/14 TA
11/5/14 CA scheduled for Dec 3!
11/18/14 Leave for China!!
12/5/14 HOME!!!

Emily's Time Line:

2/26/12 Submitted LOI (Letter of Intent to China)
3/1/12 Recieved PA!! (Pre-Approval from China to adopt Emily)
3/7/12 Started Homestudy
4/12/12 Final Homestudy visit
5/10/12 Homestudy sent to BAAS for approval
5/31/12 Homestudy notorized and I800A paperwork sent
6/18/12 Walked in for fingerprinting
7/16/12 I800A approval (approval from US to adopt)
7/27/12 DTC (Dossier to China)
8/2/12 LID (Log in date)
9/24/12 LOA!! (Final letter of approval from China giving us permission to adopt Emily)
10/5/12 I800 Approval (appproval from the US to specifically adopt Emily)
10/17/12 NVC
10/18/12 Article 5 Drop-off
11/01/12 Article 5 Pick-up
11/08/12 TA
11/09/12 CA
11/28/12 Leave for China!
12/3/12 Emily Day!!
12/13/12 HOME!!

Monday, June 18, 2012

We've been fingerprinted!

Made a last minute decision today to go to Pittsburgh....there is never really a good time to go with my schedule! Taking time off always affects someone. But, we were in and out in less than 15 minutes! They were all really nice and didn't blink an eye that we were early. Now, we just wait to be assigned an officer which seems to be taking a LOT longer this month than last month! (sigh!)

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Next step- fingerprinting!

We received our fingerprint notices in the mail which is part of the I800A process. Once they are done, an officer will review our files and homestudy and then mail us an approval letter. That letter will get state certified and authenticated and overnighted to our agency. We will finally be DTC (Dossier to China!) hopefully in a few weeks! Unfortunately, they spelled John's last name wrong on our fingerprint notice, so we will be calling tomorrow to get that fixed. It was correct on the previous piece of paperwork they mailed us, but it is wrong now. Hopefully that will be a quick fix. No new pictures of Emily to share...in fact it is getting harder to get updates as our agency can no longer request them, so I'm not sure if we will get any more pictures. But I'll include some miscellaneous ones of our family anticipating Emily's arrival.....