Today was the day we've been waiting for for 7 months now.
7 LONG months of paperwork, waiting, fingerprints, more paperwork and more waiting...
to compile the much anticipated DOSSIER!
THIS is what the Complete Dossier Looks like...
It is made up of 14 documents that have each been Notarized, Sealed by the Secretary of State (in 3 states), Sealed by the Department of State in Washington DC (Hillary Clinton)
and finally authenticated by the Embassy of China in Washington DC.
It is also made up of 3 notarized reference letters (written to CCCWA in Ch*na)by 3 wonderful friends that honored us by writing such beautiful references. We thank all 3 of you for writing these! Also included in the final dossier is 6 family pictures, 2 passport photo's each of me and Jeff and a copy of the first page of our passports. We also had to make and send a copy of the entire dossier! After everything was finally put into the Fed Ex box it weighed a whopping....
2.30 Pounds! That is what 7 months worth of Adoption paperwork weighs.
Tomorrow morning it will arrive at our agency in California then they will check it over again and then send it to Ch*na! This is a GIANT step forward in our adoption!
Now we can sit back and WAIT! I feel like we've finally hurdled ourselves over that HUGE fence that we've been trying and trying to get over for the last 7 months. It almost feels like a dream to us. We can relax a little bit now and keep ourselves busy while we wait this time. Our stuff is done for now on our side. Now we wait for a Logged In Date(LID) from the CCCWA. That normally takes anywhere from a week to several weeks. We pray that we get it pretty quick!
After we get our LID we will wait for our Letter of Acceptance (LOA). The LOA can take anywhere from 1 month to 5 months. We are praying for and believing in a short LOA wait!
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