HUDSON'S TIMELINE
June 2004: Brought Alaina home from China
January 2005: Trina really, really wanted to adopt again
May 2005: Spoke at our very first CCAI seminar where God spoke to Joel's heart
May 2005: Few days after the seminar, Joel made a statement, "I don't want to travel to China in the Winter." Guess this is his way of saying, "Yes."
June 2005: Started the adoption process for Baby. Met 3 visits with our social worker. Home Study completed in record timing dated June 28.
June 2005: Completed all dossier in record time and mailed almost all of the dossier to Secretary of State and then mailed to U.S. State Department and then to the Chinese Embassy. Dossier documents not sent were the Home Study, two Police Clearances, I171H from immigration. All documents were then sent to Chinese Children Adoption International, our agency. We also included our photos.
June 28, 2005: Home Study was mailed to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
July 5, 2005: Fingerprints
July 2005: Mailed Homestudy and two Police Clearances to our state and they forwarded to the Assistant Stork. She walked it to the U.S. State Department and then to the Chinese Embassy. She picked up the documents in four days and she mailed them directly to CCAI. Then we continue to wait on the I171H.
August 22, 2005: Received I171H!!!! Mailed notarized copy of the I171H to Secretary of state. They forwarded document to the Assistant Stork. She walked the document to the U.S. State Department and then to the Chinese Embassy. She then forwarded the I171H to CCAI.
August 31, 2005: CCAI received I171H. Dossier complete, critically reviewed by Dossier team (2 times), translated, and photos mounted.
September 1, 2005: CCAI mailed our dossier to China (DTC) in just one day!!!
September 2, 2005: CCAI contacted us to let us know that our Dossier had been mailed to China!!!! Exciting day!!! Wow, in only one day!
September 5, 2005: China Center of Adoption Affairs received our Dossier
September 29, 2005: China Center of Adoption Affairs logged our Dossier into their computer system. This is our special date...our Log In Date (LID). Now we are officially pregnant!!!
October 10, 2005: CCAI notified us that our Log In Date was September 29. Big surprise that it took so long.
November 2005: Rumors of a slowdown...ugh
June 2006: Home Study expires so our social worker visits for our Home Study Update
August 30, 2006: TV interview about adoption
August 31, 2006: Re-Fingerprints. We decided to go ahead and get them taken. Our original ones did not expire until October 4, 2006.
September 2006: Referrals were sent up through August 9, 2005
September 29, 2006: Our one year anniversary of waiting
November 2, 2006: CCAA sends referrals up to August 25, 2005
December 1, 2006: CCAA sends referrals up to September 8, 2005
December 1, 2006: Mail application for a new I171H since it will expire before we travel.
January 4, 2007: CCAA sends referrals up to September 27, 2005. We missed it by 2 days! We are next!
January 20, 2007: Received our new I171H from immigration.
January 30, 2007: Stork is in the air!!! CCAI reports that referrals were mailed on Tuesday 1/30.
February 1, 2007: Referrals have arrived at CCAI. They will make sure that the baby is available and healthy by contacting the orphanage. The Translation Dept. at CCAI will translate all the documents and the translation of Baby's name.
February 2, 2007: At 1:10PM today, Penny called with the news of our baby BOY!!! After being on the phone with her for 45 minutes, we clicked on the email and saw his sweet little face for the first time. We have waited 16 months and 4 days to see our baby's adorable little face from the time China Logged our dossier into their system (LID). We have waited a total of 20 months from the time we started the first paperwork until today.
February 3, 2007: We attacked the FedEx man today as he was bringing our baby BOY'S package. We received two more pictures and all translated and Chinese medical records. We mailed the Acceptance Letter back within one hour!!!
February 5, 2007: Our Acceptance Letter arrived at CCAI today. Here is what they posted on the CCAI site:
2/5/2007Congratulations to our Recently Matched Families!
We received a total of 81 child matches. These matches included families who were logged in between September 28, 2005 and October 13, 2005, as well as expedited Chinese Descent matches for families logged in between March 16-31, 2006! Also, we received 6 boys in this match group!
February 6, 2007: CCAI mailed the Acceptance Letters back to China today!!!! They should arrive in China on Friday, February 9, 2007 and we will hear news about Travel Approve 2 to 5 weeks from Friday.
March 5, 2007: Our agency received our Travel Approval today!!!! We now have permission to travel to China.
March 10, 2007: Consulate Appointment is set and travel plans are made.
March 15, 2007: Leave for China
March 19, 2007: Hudson is in our arms forever!!! Gotcha Day!!!
22 months from application to Hudson forever in our arms.
And somewhere while you’re sleepingSomeone else is dreaming too
Counting down the days untilThey hold you close and say I love you
(Steven Curtis Chapman)
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