Adoption Timeline

In this post, I decided to show you our adoption timeline. I documented everything from day one! I also attached a picture from the Lifeline China Reunion in July 2005.

• Oct. 28. 2004 Mailed in Lifeline Children's Services Application
• Nov. 22, 2004 Mailed our first packet to Lifeline
• Nov. 22, 2004 Mailed our application to the CIS
• Nov. 26, 2004 Blair and I had our fingerprints done at the Randolph County Jail
• Nov. 29, 2004 Acquired Birth Cert and Marriage Cert.
• Dec. 1, 2004 Phone Interview with Karla our Social Worker
• Dec. 4, 2004 Received our fingerprint packet from CIS and our I-600 receipt
• Dec. 8, 2004 Went to B'ham to the Immigration office for our prints
• Dec. 8, 2004 We had our second meeting with Karla at Lifeline in B'ham
• Dec. 8, 2004 Vicki and Nathan had their physicals with Dr. Robinson
• Dec. 9, 2004 Blair's physical at Southwire
• Dec. 20, 2004 Received DHR clearances (fingerprints at jail)
• Jan. 5, 2005 Certificate of No Criminal Record signed and notarized
• Jan. 7, 2005 Third meeting with Karla at Lifeline in B'ham (Nathan went too!)
• Jan. 7, 2005 Mailed passport applications
• Jan. 7, 2005 Took all of our pets to get rabies certifications
• Jan. 19, 2005 Jenn from Lifeline came to our house for the Homestudy (we passed)
• Jan. 22, 2005 Blair, Vicki and Nathan received thier passports
• Jan. 27, 2005 Blair took his statement of profession and medical report to be county certified
• Jan. 28, 2005 Mailed Georgia documents to be State Certified
• Feb. 4, 2005 Homestudy sent to Montgomery via Karla at Lifeline
• Feb. 4, 2005 Received Georiga State documents back
• Mar. 4, 2005 Homestudy approved, sent copy to Atlanta to CIS; Copy also sent to Jefferson County Probate Court to be County Certified; Then Fed-Exed to me!
• Mar. 9, 2005 Received 171 H, CIS approval
• Mar. 10, 2005 Received Homestudy via FedEx
• Mar. 11, 2005 Vicki to Montgomery to Secertary of State to have all documents State Certified
• Mar. 12, 2005 All documents to Texas for authentication process at the Consulate via FedEx
• Mar. 14, 2005 Sent last minute items to Lifeline (copy of Dossier, family pics, copy of passports)
• Mar. 22, 2005 Karla received Authentication from Texas
• Mar. 22, 2005 Karla mailed Dossier to China DTC
• Mar. 25, 2005 Lilly in China received our Dossier- Lilly sent Dossier to CCAA
• Apr. 14, 2005 Recieved important "Brown Packet" from Guangzhou
• May 2, 2005 Email from Karla LID 4/22/05
• May 31, 2005 Travel meeting in B'ham
• July 4, 2005 Painted Kellum-Ann's Room
• July 23, 2005 China Reunion with Lifeline @ Briarwood Presbyterian Church in B'ham; Lilly here from China
• Sep. 20, 2005 Kellum's furniture was delivered
• ????????????? Referral

Our First Post

Well... everyone, we are now awaiting our referral. For those new to the adoption terminology, the referral contains a picture, age, medical records and any other information that the agency has about our little girl! When we receive this referral, we look and decide whether or not we will accept it or deny it. Our LID, "log in date", was April 22, 2005. Usually the referrals come 6-7 moths from your login date. So we are still waiting. This picture is the same one that we sent in with our Dossier to
China.