Adopt China

A moment-by-moment, signature-by-signature timeline of our China adoption journey to WanYing Hope Morningstar.

Phase 1: Decisions

  • Spring 2010 - Consider bringing another child into our family. Research countries, seek out waiting child programs
  • Late April 2010 - Telling family and close friends about our decision to adopt
  • Late April 2010 - Intense agency research and interviews with agencies and parents who have adopted using each agency on our short list
  • May 3, 2010 - Decided on WACAP and sent in application - paperwork collection begins
  • May 9, 2010 - Announce our paper pregnancy!

Phase 2: Paperwork

  • May - Mid-June 2010 - Attempt to get an abuse clearance from Kazakhstan since Jamie "lived" there for 2 months in 2009. After roughly a million attempts, decide that it's the impossible dream.
  • May 22, 2010 - Copies of birth certificates, marriage licenses sent to Maryland for verification
  • May 31, 2010 - Verified copies of birth certificates, marriage licenses received from Maryland
  • July 2, 2010 - Final homestudy interview with Families for Children - homestudy done!
  • June 7, 2010 - Education hours completed
  • July 7, 2010 - I-800A application sent to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • August 20, 2010 - I-800A fingerprinting appointment at USCIS (45 days after application)
  • August 25, 2010 - I-800A pre-approval
    (50 days after application, 5 days after fingerprinting)
  • August 26, 2010 - Send all documents to Utah Lt. Governor office for verification
  • September 4, 2010 - All verified documents received back from Utah Lt. Governor office
  • September 4, 2010 - Send all documents to U.S. Department of State and then Chinese Embassy in Washington D.C. for authentication (sent via courier who does both authentications)
  • September 20, 2010 - paper-ready! All documents back from Department of State and the Chinese Embassy! Sent documents to WACAP for them to send to CCAA (Chinese Center of Adoption Affairs)
  • September 23, 2010 - WACAP sends our dossier to China
  • September 30, 2010 - Logged In Date (LID) from CCAA indicating that they have received and done initial processing on our paperwork (LID received 10/14)

Phase 3: Pursuit

Phase 4: Travel!

Phase 5: Home Again!

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