We have also been blessed by another family with a child in Sammy's orphanage. When she received an update of her daughter, our Sammy was in the background! The internet is amazing.
Several people have asked for an update on our adoption and what the process actually looks like. The past few months haven't been all that exciting. We have been crazy busy with lots and lots of paperwork, training classes, meetings with social workers, and rushing to get all our documents notarized and turned into the agency. Whew! I am happy to say it is all done! We had our USCIS fingerprints done yesterday, and now we wait for the approval. Once we get our approval we will be DTC!
DTC, in the adoption world, means dossier to China. We are hoping to be DTC by the end of April. At that point our dossier (all our notarized and translated documents) will be off to China and we will be logged in. After we get our LID (log in date) we wait for our LOA. The LOA (letter of acceptance) is the approval we need to make Sammy ours. Right now China has pre-approved us as his family, but they won't give acceptance until they have reviewed our dossier. After we receive LOA we wait for our TA. TA (travel approval) gives us permission to travel to China to get Sammy. We have 90 days to travel from the date of TA. Our agency told us that it usually takes about 5 months from LID to travel. We are hoping to travel October 1-14 2011.
