Our Road to Ethiopian Adoption: October 2012

114 on the boy list, 57 on the sibling list.

Adoption #2 Timeline

April 29, 2012-Completed Application

May 4, 2012-Orientation packet received

May 10, 2012-Orientation call

May 16, 2012-Mailed in contracts

May 29, 2012-Dossier call

June 24, 2012-First Homestudy visit

October 4, 2012-Dossier mailed, corrections needed

October 23, 2012-Waitlisted, 114 infant boy, 57 sibling up to 36mo

October 31, 2012-113 boy, 60 sibling

November 30, 2012-109 boy, 58 sibling

December 31, 2012-105 boy, 57 sibling

January 29, 2013- 103 boy, 55 sibling

February 28, 2013- 103 boy, 54 sibling

March 28, 2013- 100 boy, 52 sibling

April 30, 2013- 98 boy, 55 sibling

Adoption #1 Timeline

6/26/2009 Preapplication Submitted to AGCI
7/17/2009 Preapplication and Dr.'s letters approved 8/18/2009 Application for Ethiopia submitted to AGCI 8/19/2009 Application approved by AGCI
8/21/2009 Orientation packet received
8/26/2009 Orientation call with AGCI
11/13/2009 Turned in agency contracts
11/21/2009 Received Adoption Planner/Dossier Packet 11/25/2009 Dossier review call with AGCI
12/2/2009 First homestudy interview
1/7/2010 Final homestudy meeting
4/6/2010 Homestudy is complete and approved
4/24/2010 Received completed homestudy
4/27/2010 Dossier mailed to AGCI!!
5/7/2010 On the waiting list. 55 on the girl list, 38 on the boy list.
6/10/2010 June updated numbers. 50 on girl list, 29 on boy list.
6/28/2010 Received Favorable Determiniation from USCIS(immigration)
7/2/2010 July update. 47 on the girl wait list, 26 on the boy list.
8/11/2010 August Update. 41 on the girl list, 24 on the boy list.
9/7/2010 September Update. 39 on the girl list, 23 on the boy list.
10/5/2010 October Update. 31 on girl list, 20 on boy list.
11/5/2010 November Update. 22 on girl list, 10 on boy list.
12/9/2010 December Update. 18 on girl list, 9 on boy list.
1/7/2011 January Update. 13 on girl list, 7 on boy list.
2/11/2011 February Update. 12 on the girl list, 8 on the boy list.
3/9/2011 Unofficially #1 on both the girl and boy list 3/10/2011 Matched with our 9 week old daughter
3/14/2011 Received our referral package in the mail 3/17/2011 Overnighted our referral acceptance package to AGCI
4/18/2011 Court date received, May 27th

5/19/2011 BM Court Date

5/24/2011 Meetcha day
5/27/2011 Passed Court, she's ours
6/20/2011 File opened at U.S. Embassy
6/24/2011 Embassy requested interview with birth mother
6/29/2011 Birth mother interview
7/1/2011 Embassy requests additional information
7/11/2011 Embassy requests even more information
7/20/2011 U.S. Embassy approves our file
7/21/2011 U.S. Embassy confirms our interview. We're going to Ethiopia!
8/1/2011 Gotcha Day
8/7/2011 Finally HOME with our daughter!!!

Our Road to Ethiopian Adoption

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Wooooo!!!

Addis Ababa