A Little Owl Told Me We Are 'OOT

The owl said we are 'OOT!!!

I know, sounds silly but it is another big step forward. 

Once our dossier was sent to China, it needed to be logged in first. Se we were DTC on 5/9 (arrived in China 5/12) and LID, logged in date of 5/21. I have many friends on the various Facebook adoption groups who have similar dates as we do. It is fun knowing that we might meet up in China as we travel to get our little ones. Well, we all post our "stats" and watch each other's. The other dossiers were moving on to be OOT, or Out of Translation. A big step. So, on Thursday, needing some good news, I emailed our placement agency just to see how things were going. Marilyn emailed back to say that the listings show that we are OOT also!!! So excited! 

What's next?? Our dossier needs to be reviewed and we will receive our LOA, Letter of Approval. A bit of a long dragged out process but we are moving along. Some have waited 30 days for LOA, some have waited for 100 days or more. We have no way to know how long we will wait. So please, keep praying that we move along quickly and bring home our Little China Princess soon.

L. I. D. !!!

So today I finished filling out our next US Government paper, the I800 approval. It requests approval to adopt a specific child. This will be needed once we have our Letter of Approval (LOA) from China. I finished it and sent it to our placement agency so they will have it waiting and ready to go once that LOA comes. I also sent the agency an email letting them know it was on its way and asking if they had heard anything about our Log In Date (LID) yet. I was getting a little discouraged as a few other dossiers that were submitted after mine already had LID. After a long day I received a quick email telling me that we do have LID.


Log In Date (L.I.D.) 5/21/14!!!!!

We're not only LID but we have had LID for 6 days already!!! A big step forward. 

Now we wait for our Letter of Approval which could come anytime from 45-100 days from our LID. UGH! Wish we could pinpoint our travel a little better. But, this means we could travel anywhere from late Sept-November. Please pray that we receive our LOA and everything goes quickly. We want our Little Miss home soon!

Home Study Complete!

Oh those words sound so good. I received an email from my home study agency on Sunday saying that our home study was finally updated and complete. Our placement agency accepted in on Tuesday 3/18. Now it is on its way to Immigration. We should get an appointment to have our fingerprints taken in Hartford soon. Hopefully by the end of the month but maybe the first week in April. Then we wait for approval. Please pray it comes quickly, although I have heard that many are waiting about a month for immigration approval.

For now, I have most of the documents for our dossier all set to go to Hartford to get authenticated. I am waiting on my letter of employment, week 3 of waiting for that. UGH! The only other documents needed are the home study, which I should have by Monday and then our immigration approval notice.

HUGE STEPS FORWARD!!! But it still seems like so far to go. Still praying for an early fall travel. Prayers please!