Over the last month we have been working towards getting our home study completed and at the same time gathering all the necessary papers for our dossier. We have now finished our home study and our case worker hopes to have it ready for us to review early next week!
Here is an abbreviated version of how the process works: Once our agency approves our home study we will send it to USCIS for approval, which is currently taking about 50 days. While we waiting for our approval we'll continue to finish gathering the rest of our dossier documents and send them to be authenticated. After we get our USCIS approval we will send it to be authenticated and on to our agency with the rest of our dossier. At that point they will be able to send our dossier to China (DTC)... we're hoping this happens by the end of August or so. After we're DTC, we'll wait be waiting to hear when our log in date (LID) is and we'll also be waiting to be matched! Once we are matched there will be a whole slew of steps (and acronyms) to follow, so I'll spare you the details for now. :-) We're anticipating this adoption will take a year or less from now until the time we travel.
We'll keep you all updated as things progress. For now I'll leave you with a few shots of our sweet Anna ... she's going to be a wonderful big sister!
