WE HAVE OUR L.I.D.

(log in date)

10/23/2012
now our dossier goes to translation

Received an email that said...
Dear Larry and Andrea Dodge,
CONGRATULATIONS! YOUR DOSSIER WAS SHIPPED TO BEIJING TODAY!

(Dossier To China)

October 19, 2012

Now we wait!

This was from our agency and explains what happens next:

 

From sending the dossier on Friday the dossier is received by our staff in China (Monday China time, Sunday our time) and logged in at the CCCWA within about two weeks of being sent to China. From there is can take an additional two weeks or so to receive a family’s login date information, as the CCCWA releases this information in batches. Generally we receive a family’s login date information from the CCCWA within two to four weeks of their dossier being sent to China.
After it is logged in it will be sent immediately for translation since your family is matched. Once translated it will be reviewed and then matched up with your little one’s child information and your Letter of Intent. From there, your family will receive your Letter of Acceptance. From a dossier being sent to China it is six months until travel. Most families receive their LOA about three months after their dossier is sent.
Now the 6 months is not exactly what I wanted to hear but it is completely out of our hands

Getting Closer,

Dossier on its way to our ageny!

October 13, 2012



10/11/12

Oh Happy Day!

 

 

All documents where sent back

APPROVED by the

Chinese Consulate in Chicago!

Thank You, Jesus!

This week we recieved a nice size grant from

Kinsman Redeemer. 

We are so very thankful!

When a Broken Heart is a Good Thing

Lord , thank you for breaking my heart for a little boy in China. That breaking of my heart has opened up a whole new understanding of what adoption is. I known people who have adopted and even have sweet precious friends who have adopted. I have watched them go through the process and have seen the changes it has made to their family but I don't think I realized what the Lord is able to do when He breaks your heart for an orphan.

Wow, it is actually indescribable and until you have experienced it I can't even begin to tell you what it feels like other than it is AMAZING!!! I am so humbled that he would call me (and our family) to be the mom (and family) to a child who has experienced so much lose in 9 short years. 

Yesterday I experienced my first "momma bear" feeling over John. All you moms will know exactly what I am talking about, that feeling of fighting for your child when you feel the world is mis-treating him or her.  Long story short the majority of our documents that make up our dossier has to be re-created because of a typo in what we where using as a example of how to notarized adoption documents. I stood in the Secretary of State office yesterday in St Louis and felt that momma bear coming out when I heard the words "your documents are not correct". I wanted to yell at the top of my lungs "but there is a little boy waiting in China"...and each day it takes to re-create document is one day longer he will spend in an orphanage! Larry looks and me and says "breath deep"...that is why I love him so much, he is my rock when things get crazy. I am so thankful the Lord has called us on this journey together.

So hear I stand with a broken heart for a little boy with the name D**g S*nM*ng...and that causes me to start over and re-created our documents and be that momma bear for him!

Form I-797 arrived in the mail yesterday. 

 

This is approval of form I-800A

(which is our official fingerprinting from USCIS).

and the final document that

goes into our dossier

Definition for uscis:

Web definitions:

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is a bureau of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS

 

dos·si·er/ˈdôsēˌā/

Noun:

A collection of documents about a particular person, event, or subject