Timeline

9-8-09 Jumping in with both feet…decision to adopt!

9-11-09 Submit pre-application with AGCI and request information packet

9-15-09 Adoption consultation at Adoption & Beyond (received home study packet)

9-15-09 Jenn’s doctor apt and letters of recommendation

9-16-09 Paul’s doctor apt. and letters of recommendation

9-18-09 Pick up TB test results

9-21-09 Kids doctor apt. and TB tests

9-22-09 KBI fingerprinting

9-29-09 Mailed in completed AGCI application

9-30-09 Turned in completed home study packet

10-2-09 Accepted into AGCI’s Ethiopian program!

10-7-09 Phone orientation call with AGCI

10-10-09 AGCI forms notarized

10-15-09 Loan secured

10-15-09 Home study HOME VISIT and interviews with social worker

10-17-09 AGCI orientation packet mailed

10-21-09 Received first copy of completed HOME STUDY!

10-24-09 Adoption & Beyond International Adoption Workshop (final piece of our home study)

10-26-09 Received dossier requirements and EYES WIDE OPEN workbook in the mail (have at least 1/2 of the paperwork completed already!)

10-27-09 Dossier review phone call with AGCI

11-1-09 Home study sent back for revisions

11-9-09 Eyes Wide Open notebook sent to AGCI

11-11-09 Sent AGCI certificates for Adoption Learner Partner online courses

11-11-09 Received final copies of Home Study

11-11-09 MAILED IN DOSSIER!!!

11-16-09 Heard from Christy…forgot to mail in passport photos with dossier

11-17-09 Dossier COMPLETE…ON THE WAIT LIST…30 BOY and 46 GIRL

12-3-09 29 BOY and 42 GIRL

12-22-09 I-600 Fingerprinting

12-29-09 USCIS Favorable Determination (Immigration Approval)

1-8-10 26 BOY (unofficially 24) and 35 GIRL

2-5-10 21 BOY and 31 GIRL

2-22-10 19 BOY (unofficial) and 30 GIRL (unofficial)

3-8-10 18 BOY and 27 GIRL