Our Adoption Timeline

We started as a family of 3...

 

then we started ADOPTION #1
April 10, 2010:  Decided to get serious about adopting...it was always the plan but officially started looking at agencies and planning. 
May 9, 2010:  Announced our news of adopting from Ethiopia

August 24, 2010:  Sent in Application Part 1

August 31, 2010:  Approval of Application Part 1

October 2, 2010:  Handed in Application Part 2

October 22, 2010:  Approval of Application Part 2 (unofficial dossier)

November 22, 2010:  Home study done

January 7, 2011:  Received finalized home study

January 10, 2011:  Mailed off USCIS application

February 8, 2011:  USCIS appointment

March 5, 2011:  Received our notice of favorable determination letter from the USCIS

April 9, 2011:  Handed in our dossier!!!!

July 6, 2011:  Dossier mailed to Ethiopia, officially on the wait list!!!!!

February 27, 2012:  Accepted our sweet little boy off the waiting child list

March 16, 2012:  Found out we got a court date!!!!

April 18, 2012:  Court Date in Ethiopia
June 26, 2012:  Embassy Date

July 1, 2012:  Arrived home in Oklahoma as a family of 4!

 

 

Now we are working on adding more to our bunch in ADOPTION #2

May 2013:    Announced our adoption

Sept 2013:   Home-study visits completed

Oct  2013:   Officially approved to adopt through Adoption Advocates International (AAI)

Nov 2013:    USCIS fingerprints done

Nov 2013:    USCIS approval to adopt a child 0-5 yrs old

Dec 2013:    Completed our dossier

 

Next step:  raising the final amount needed to submit our dossier and then we wait for "The Call"