We have mailed off the I800A to the Immigration of the United States or USCIS. Our home study was finished and through review on February 24th, but we didn't get the final copies until March 2nd. As soon as I could get that final copy in my hand I rushed it to Fedex and sent it overnight to USCIS in Texas. Today I received a text that they got it! How exciting to know that our paperwork is waiting to be reviewed to see if we qualify to bring an orphan into the US. I'm sure we will pass with flying colors, but we have to wait about 60 days to get that approval. In between there we have to be fingerprinted, so we have been making sure our hands are well lotioned because we can't have any cuts or cracks on them for the fingerprinting. I am busy getting our dossier together so it will be all ready when we get our I800A approval. We are still thinking of travel in September or October, but we will know better as time marches on...
COLLEEN
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Final Homestudy Visit
Mary Beth came over this morning for our final homestudy visit! We did find out we have one more document to fill out, but then we should be all finished. She is planning to write our homestudy next week and then turn it in to her supervisors who will take a few weeks to peruse. Then it will be sent to our agency who will take a few weeks to peruse and then when it is finished I can send it on the US Immigration! Lots of steps but each step is progress....
As for the rest of the family....Josh has been busy working and doing some missionary work, Alyssa is hanging out with friends and working on college documents (she will be going to Lake Superior State in Sault St. Marie, Michigan this fall). Aaron is busy with basketball - 2 teams and lots of practices. Lia is just being her sweet little 5 year old self - so much fun to have around!! Molly is getting excited about Chinese New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choy!!!
God Bless,
Colleen
As for the rest of the family....Josh has been busy working and doing some missionary work, Alyssa is hanging out with friends and working on college documents (she will be going to Lake Superior State in Sault St. Marie, Michigan this fall). Aaron is busy with basketball - 2 teams and lots of practices. Lia is just being her sweet little 5 year old self - so much fun to have around!! Molly is getting excited about Chinese New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choy!!!
God Bless,
Colleen
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
It's been a while....
Welcome back to our blog. I am going to attempt to keep this up better this year (my New Years resolution??? - maybe...) As some of you know we are in the process of adopting again. We are paperchasing for Fan Ping An and he is waiting for us at a wonderful foster home in Beijing, China. We will name him Cameron Edward Ping'An Hall. Cameron was 3 years old on December 24th and has a heart condition called TOF (Tetralogy of Fallot). He has already had surgery in China for this condition, but will need another heart surgery to correct an additional issue before he turns 4 years old. We are all very excited to bring him home and Lia keeps asking when he will be here...
Which brings me to our process. We began the process of adopting again in July. However, we started the process with the same agency that we adopted Lia through. That agency had some issues with China and was put on suspension just as we were nearing the end of our homestudy. This prompted us to look at other agencies and other children available for adoption. We found Cameron, had his file evaluated by Lia's cardiologist and decided to pursue his adoption. However, the agency we had the homestudy with would not let us transfer our homestudy to the new agency. Sooooo, we had to start all over with a new homestudy and a new agency. This all happened in early November. Our homestudy agency had a few issues to work out and we are now almost finished with our homestudy. Looking at other adoptive families timelines I am hoping we get to travel to bring Cameron home in the late summer or early fall. China has already granted us pre-approval to adopt Fan Ping'An and has given us 6 months to submit our dossier to them. I am pretty confident that this will not be a problem. We have received a few pictures of our new son and get updates on him every few weeks. I have to wait until LOA (Letter of Acceptance) before I can post his picture so as of now - you will have to trust me that he is a doll!
Please pray that our paperwork will all zip along and we can bring him home sooner rather than later! I want him to know us and trust us prior to surgery, so the longer he is with us before surgery, the better....
God Bless,
Colleen
Which brings me to our process. We began the process of adopting again in July. However, we started the process with the same agency that we adopted Lia through. That agency had some issues with China and was put on suspension just as we were nearing the end of our homestudy. This prompted us to look at other agencies and other children available for adoption. We found Cameron, had his file evaluated by Lia's cardiologist and decided to pursue his adoption. However, the agency we had the homestudy with would not let us transfer our homestudy to the new agency. Sooooo, we had to start all over with a new homestudy and a new agency. This all happened in early November. Our homestudy agency had a few issues to work out and we are now almost finished with our homestudy. Looking at other adoptive families timelines I am hoping we get to travel to bring Cameron home in the late summer or early fall. China has already granted us pre-approval to adopt Fan Ping'An and has given us 6 months to submit our dossier to them. I am pretty confident that this will not be a problem. We have received a few pictures of our new son and get updates on him every few weeks. I have to wait until LOA (Letter of Acceptance) before I can post his picture so as of now - you will have to trust me that he is a doll!
Please pray that our paperwork will all zip along and we can bring him home sooner rather than later! I want him to know us and trust us prior to surgery, so the longer he is with us before surgery, the better....
God Bless,
Colleen
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