Today is baby's 5-month birthday! Time is flying by.....
We hope to have updated pictures soon! Those below are about 2 and a half months old. Next time our agency's representative goes to his orphanage (probably in the next few weeks sometime) he is going to take pictures and measurements. Yea!
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
I-600 acknowledgment
Guess what we got today????
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Dear Mr/Ms. Lee,
This office is in receipt of your Form I-600, Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative. Your petition and supporting evidence will be reviewed by USCIS to determine whether the child named qualifies as an orphan. In certain cases it may be concluded that an administrative field inquiry or a request for evidence is necessary to make that determination. Most determinations will be completed in 60 working days.
You will be notified by mail as soon as this determination has been completed.
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Yea! Now we begin our final wait. USCIS has stated that the average wait from this point is 45 days. We'll hope for that! But most people from our agency have had to wait 60 calendar days or more....Also, the letter states "60 working days," which is really more like 90 calendar days. Hope they work fast! We should travel 2-3 weeks after we receive this approval. Yea!
PS. Don't you love the grumpy picture??
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Dear Mr/Ms. Lee,
This office is in receipt of your Form I-600, Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative. Your petition and supporting evidence will be reviewed by USCIS to determine whether the child named qualifies as an orphan. In certain cases it may be concluded that an administrative field inquiry or a request for evidence is necessary to make that determination. Most determinations will be completed in 60 working days.
You will be notified by mail as soon as this determination has been completed.
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Yea! Now we begin our final wait. USCIS has stated that the average wait from this point is 45 days. We'll hope for that! But most people from our agency have had to wait 60 calendar days or more....Also, the letter states "60 working days," which is really more like 90 calendar days. Hope they work fast! We should travel 2-3 weeks after we receive this approval. Yea!
PS. Don't you love the grumpy picture??
Monday, July 7, 2008
Official Referral!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
NEXT WEEK!?!?!?
I'm so excited! Our agency called us back. They have a little boy who is getting his medical evaluation done today. They don't know his age or health status yet. If everything goes well, we should be getting a call early next week. EEEEK!!!
China Referral Calculator
On a depressing note, I discovered this China Referral calculator yesterday.
http://chinaadoptionforecast.com
You enter your log-in date, and based on the adoption rates of the last year or so, it estimates when you will receive your referral. It predicts we will get our China referral in September of 2014! Good grief...On a happier note, we're waiting on our Vietnam adoption agency to call back. Our coordinator told us to call her today and said she'd tell us what she's been hearing. Still hoping for a referral next week!
http://chinaadoptionforecast.com
You enter your log-in date, and based on the adoption rates of the last year or so, it estimates when you will receive your referral. It predicts we will get our China referral in September of 2014! Good grief...On a happier note, we're waiting on our Vietnam adoption agency to call back. Our coordinator told us to call her today and said she'd tell us what she's been hearing. Still hoping for a referral next week!
Adoption Rules Tighten Abroad
http://washingtonindependent.com/view/international
Here's an interesting article that discusses Vietnam adoption and other international adoption as well. In it, Vietnam says that "it will shut down rather than deal with what it described as disrespectful U.S. officials. The two countries remain at an impasse." Sad.
Here's an interesting article that discusses Vietnam adoption and other international adoption as well. In it, Vietnam says that "it will shut down rather than deal with what it described as disrespectful U.S. officials. The two countries remain at an impasse." Sad.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Cute baby boy
Check this out! It's the blog of a family who's in Vietnam right now adopting their baby boy. He's so cute.
http://www.travel2morgan.blogspot.com/
http://www.travel2morgan.blogspot.com/
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