We've passed our one month LID anniversary! How many months to go?
For family and friends anxious to meet our new addition, be warned - it will likely be a while. The adoption process in China has slowed considerably since we started. When we first began our paperwork for China back in August, the wait from LID to referral was 6-8 months and we expected to travel to pick up our child later this year.
Now the wait is 11-12 months and our agency is currently saying to expect a 10-14 month wait, and that the time could change at any time, as that is just an estimate based on recent activity. Now we are expecting to travel sometime in 2007. Other agencies around the world are telling clients just entering the process that waits could stretch to 18-22 months from LID.
There is so much speculation and so little official information or certainty that one adoptive parent set up a rumours blog just for China adoptions. While it's a little frustrating not knowing when we will recieve our child, we know that our child is in China and will make it home to us and we will be very happy when that happens.
Join us on our journey to adopt a child from China. This is our personal "Road to Hana"
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
~Rachel Carson~
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Process Milestones
- 3/13/08 Petition Update
- 4/20/06 LID
- 4/17/06 DTC
- 4/12/06 Dossier Sent to China
- 4/7/06 Translation Begins
- 3/28/06 Critical Review Begins
- 3/22/06 I-171H Received
- 2/16/06 Dossier to Agency (minus I-171H)
- 1/21/06 CIS Fingerprints Done
- 1/11/06 Fingerprint Letter Received
- 1/9/06 HS Report Received
- 11/20/05 Final H2 Meeting
- 11/5/05 H2 Meeting
- 10/30/05 Changed Home Study Agency
- 10/29/05 FBI Reports Received
- 10/01/05 Record Request to FBI
- 9/23/05 HS Home Visit
- 9/20/05 I-600A Filing Date
- 9/13/05 HS Individual Interviews Complete
- 9/2/05 CCAI Approval
- 8/26/05 CCAI Application Mailed
- 8/25/05 Final Class
4 comments:
Congrats on being one month LID. It is something to celebrate as you are one month closer.
Do not get hung up on that rumor blog. Yes, it can be a fun thing once in a while, but if it ever starts to drive you crazy, walk away and email me anytime!
We are excited too! We know you will make good parents and Hana will be surrounded with love!
Love
PapPap and Gram
Frustrating all the wait as we started in June 05 and our LID will probably be OCT 07!
Good luck on the wait. We decided to by pass the wait for China and applied for WC. We should be traveling in Aug or Sep. Our agency said it will be quick. Our daughter, we picked and we saw her health report and had 2 wks to decide but needed only 2 days to see our docter before excepting. We started this Feb 06 and will be completed before Oct. My heart goes out for you and your family, I have worked in severial foreign orphanges and I know China's definition for health problems is very different than our definition. ( a very small birth mark that will probaly vanish and is not visible is no disability.) Good luck on your wait and hope the time actually shortens for you. David and Denise
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