As of April 15, 2011 we are DTC. This means dossier to China. All the documents we have been collecting over the last 5 months: Financial, medical, immigration, home study, employment etc. have been put in the mail to China. This seems like the biggest step. Now we wait for word from China that they have approved us and issued travel arrangements. Looking at other's timelines it looks like we will have Claire home sometime in September.
I feel like I want to start packing right now!!!
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Disappointed!
My goal was to have our dossier(all the documents we've been accumulating over the last 4 months) sent to China yesterday. Well, we weren't able to make that happen. I should know by now that one should never set an actual date, because invariably something will go wrong.
For us it turned out to be a multitude of things. I found out that two of our documents were not completed correctly. One was a document outlining Kevin's income. Found out that best practice is to have a CPA do it. Fortunately our CPA was Peter on the spot and got that done for us very quickly. The other was that our application letter didn't specifically name Claire. I had used a sample and didn't realize that we were supposed to include her name. Those two documents now have to go through the certification and authentication process. That means they have to go to Olympia and San Francisco before we can send them to our agency.
In addition, it turns out that our social worker didn't complete a bunch of inter-agency paperwork that she was required to complete. Our agency will not send our dossier to China without the paperwork in hand. There was a late afternoon round of emails between me and the social worker's agency about what needs to be filled out and who needs to to fill it out. I was frustrated and frankly, angry because I felt like they were telling me that they didn't normally fill this paperwork out and so it sounded like they wouldn't. Fortunately, I misunderstood and the meaning was that the social worker has to fill it out, not the agency. Now if only she would answer the emails!
Keep us in your prayers. Hoping to get this all done in the next week or so!!
For us it turned out to be a multitude of things. I found out that two of our documents were not completed correctly. One was a document outlining Kevin's income. Found out that best practice is to have a CPA do it. Fortunately our CPA was Peter on the spot and got that done for us very quickly. The other was that our application letter didn't specifically name Claire. I had used a sample and didn't realize that we were supposed to include her name. Those two documents now have to go through the certification and authentication process. That means they have to go to Olympia and San Francisco before we can send them to our agency.
In addition, it turns out that our social worker didn't complete a bunch of inter-agency paperwork that she was required to complete. Our agency will not send our dossier to China without the paperwork in hand. There was a late afternoon round of emails between me and the social worker's agency about what needs to be filled out and who needs to to fill it out. I was frustrated and frankly, angry because I felt like they were telling me that they didn't normally fill this paperwork out and so it sounded like they wouldn't. Fortunately, I misunderstood and the meaning was that the social worker has to fill it out, not the agency. Now if only she would answer the emails!
Keep us in your prayers. Hoping to get this all done in the next week or so!!
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