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WAITING FOR REFERRAL
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Still waiting .
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Dear Family & Friends,
This website has been created for you to follow along on our
journey to China to adopt our new daughter, Mylee Ava. As many
of you know, this has been a long journey thus far. Here’s our
story-
Our journey begins on October 16, 1999, the day Jojo and I were
married. We have always known that we wanted to have children
and began “trying” right away. After a miscarriage and several
years of minor fertility treatments, we came to a point where we
had to decide on how we would proceed with building our family.
We had discussed adoption early in our relationship and knew
that it was something that we wanted to explore after having a
biological child. Since that didn’t seem to be happening as
quickly as we would have liked (you know how impatient we are-
when we want something, we want it now!), we started looking
into adopting a child. With the experiences that we have gone
through in trying to adopt Mia (see About Mia link) we knew that
the issues that can sometimes occur with domestic adoptions were
not for us. We attended an orientation at our adoption agency
and were convinced that this was where we needed to be. After
learning more about the beautiful little girls in China needing
a home, we submitted our application on March 31, 2005 and began
what’s known in the adoption community as the “paperchase.” Here
are some of the important dates in our process . . .
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March 5,
2005 |
Attended
orientation at Heartsent International Adoption Agency |
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March
31, 2005 |
Submitted application to adopt |
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April
13, 2005 |
Mailed
I600A |
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May 6,
2005 |
Completed Homestudy |
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July 15,
2005 |
We’re
DTC! Our dossier was sent to China |
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July 28,
2005 LID |
Our
dossier was logged in at the China Center for Adoption
Affairs (CCAA) |
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We are now in the “waiting for referral” stage. At the
beginning of this process, we were told that after submitting
our dossier to the CCAA it would then take
6 or 7 months to get a referral. Well as luck would have it, the process of matching
the children with their families has slowed down considerably.
The 6-month date has come and gone and we’re now hoping that
we will get our referral by the end of July or August and
travel 4 to 6 weeks later. We will be updating this site
monthly as we continue to wait.
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