Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Mia's Homecoming Video
At last I see the light
One Less Orphan: Mia's gotcha day
Share Kareen's journey with us
<a href=http://kareensjourneyhome.blogspot.com/><img src=" http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m606/erika237/KareenButton.jpg" /></a>
Grab this button!
Kareen's forever family
Kareen's soon to be sisters
Blog Archive
-
▼
2011
(114)
-
▼
June
(27)
- Swimming Fun for Mia
- The Reality is...
- Mia's HOMECOMING video!!!!
- Who says?-updated
- The long treck home
- It's coming I promise
- Flight info update
- Are you kidding me????
- The final piece of the puzzle
- Hanging out with Mia
- Icing on the cake
- Come one, Come all...
- What is going on?
- Details of Gotcha Day
- Orphan No More!!!!
- Sweet Dreams
- When will my life begin?
- It's official!!!!
- Recent Happenings
- Where does it go?
- Random
- Follow your heart, it knows the way
- Breaking out some summer attire
- Surviving...
- Power outage
- Some of the culture around us
- Tender Mercies
-
▼
June
(27)
Our journey
We have 3 beautiful girls. Our youngest has down syndrome and has changed our lives for the better. We are now on an unexpected journey to bring home a little girl with down syndrome from an orphanage in Eastern Europe. Kareen is 4 and will only be one month older than Bree. We know we have been led by the Lord to this little girl at this time and we are eager to bring her home to her forever family.
Adoption Timeline
It has helped me to see other people's timelines who have gone through this process before me so I am going to try and give a vague timeline of ours so far.
End of December-started looking more serious into RR and thinking maybe we should pursue this
Jan. 10- Formal Commitment
Jan. 14-FSP set up and "announced" our commitment to adopt Kareen
Jan. 19- Found a SW and started Homestudy process
Jan.19-Jan. 29-County assessors office, gathering vital records, gathered mortgage documents and proof of home ownership, had medicals done, employment letter, etc.......gathered most of the dossier documents and had them notarized
Jan. 29- mailed CSP's and POA's to EE
Feb. 3- Homestudy in home interview
Feb. 5- Received official homestudy report
Feb. 10- Mailed USCIS I-600A
Feb. 16-USCIS received our I-600A into their system
Feb. 28-received fingerprint appt. (scheduled for March 14)
March 2-walked in and got fingerprints done early
March 2-took dossier documents to the capital to be apostilled
March 7-picked up apostilled documents
March 8- called USCIS and learned we were approved; the form was put in the mail
that day
March 12- i171 (golden ticket) arrives in the mail
March 14- Get i171 apostilled and MAIL DOSSIER
March 17- Dossier arrives in EE
March 31-Dossier SUBMITTED!
Kareen's Time
Followers
About Me
Feedjit
Powered by Blogger.
Those were beautiful posts and pictures. I LOVE all of the pictures. My favorite are those with Mia and her sisters and family.
ReplyDeleteJennifer from CA