Progress report

Hello all!

It's been a while since we've posted, so we thought we'd give you all a quick update! We've been a bit busy with dance shows- it is that time of year! We had the NDC company shows over Memorial Day weekend, and the recital is coming up on the 12th. Luckily before all this hit, we got the last of our paperwork submitted.

Our Home Study has been submitted to the Orphan Adoption Unit of the USCIS. They are now in the process of getting it authenticated and we are awaitng our I-171H, which is the approval to adopt an orphan. This process normally takes 4-6 weeks. We are currently about 2 weeks into that wait period. In the meantime, the adoption agency is in the process of getting all the documents we have submitted so far for our dossier authenticated at the county, state, and federal level. Once we get our I-171H form, New Life will send this last document out to be authenticated and the dossier will be translated into Chinese at the Chinese Consulate. This usually takes another 3 weeks. Once it is authenticated and the translated, our dossier will be complete and will then be sent to China. With any luck, we are still looking at mid-July-ish for our dossier to go to China. :-)

Then the "official" clock begins! We'll keep you posted when we hear some news!

~Gary & Alli