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May 14, 2010 - Applied for the Ethiopia Program with America World Adoption Association
June 3 - Get a phone call from AWAA. We've been accepted into the program!!
June 5 - Sent in our first set of paperwork. Wait to be given a family coordinator
June 9 - We have a family coordinator. We have ton of paperwork to start collecting.
June 17 - We go to the doctor to have our physicals
June 28 - Home Study Visit #1
July 2 - Completed 8 hours of online Hague training
July 18 - Home Study Visit #2
August 3 - Home Study Visit #3
September 23 - Received draft of the Home Study Report
September 30 - Received our official Home Study Report.
October 1 - Mailed off our I600-A (Application for advance processing of orphan petition) to USCIS (US Citizen and Immigration Services)
October 15 - Received a letter with the date/time for our fingerprinting appointment
October 26 - Fingerprinting appointment at the Department of Homeland Security
November 10 - Received our I171
November 11 - Mailed our dossier to AWAA
November 19 - We are DTE (Dossier to Ethiopia). Our wait time officially begins.
May 19, 2011 - On the wait-list for 6 months and are unofficially #20 in line for an infant girl referral.
November 19, 2011 - On the wait-list for 1 year and are unofficially #16 in line for an infant girl referral.
December 12, 2011 - Appointment to update our fingerprints
June 27, 2012 - At 11:09 AM, We received our referral call for a BEAUTIFUL 5 month old girl. We are in love!
August 3, 2012 - Meetcha Day. Holding our girl for the first time.
August 6, 2012 - Our court date and we passed! Maya is ours forever :)
August 29, 2012 - Our case was submitted to the US Embassy for review
September 25, 2012 - Maya's case cleared the US Embassy
September 30, 2012 - We have our girl in our arms forever
October 4, 2012 - We are HOME!
jan ranger - rwanda, IMHO, is the prettiest place on earth.
it is paradise for my soul….
it is hard for my mind to reconcile the genocide horror and the beauty of the land and its people. some things can never be understood, this side of Heaven.
thanks for taking me back there in your pictures :)