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Jen, Bill, and "E"'s excellent adventure continues as we begin to grow our family through the adoption of a child.
About Me
- Jen
- Jack of all trades, master of none... Woman of God, mother, wife, veterinarian... I'm blessed beyond my wildest dreams and thank God every day for the big things down to the tiniest detail. This Blog was set up initially to chronicle our adoption of our son from Rwanda independantly (no agency) and to help other families pursue the gift of adoption. We continue the journey with the adoption of our daughter, Feng Qi Chun, via the special needs adoption program
Time Line for Our Paper Pregnancy
- Dec 30th 9pm philly time Arrive HOME -- 33 HOURS in transit, alone with baby, 2 suitcases, 1 bag and God.
- Dec 29 Get visa after 14 days. GO HOME leave 1:30 pm Tuesady Philadelphia TIme.
- Dec 15 Visa interview at Consular ofice.
- Dec 14 Office international Migration- whole day at health clinic
- Dec 13 Leave for Nairobi
- Dec 3 Jen Leave for Nairobi, Bill leaves 2 days later. ARRIVE RWANDA MON DEC 7th
- Nov 28. Attorney Fees $1000 wired to Rwanda
- Nov 27th Find out we need PA clearance and our police and childabuse clearances expired on Nov 26 and Dec 1 Bill overnights paperwork to harrisburg (90$)
- Nov 11, 2009 REFERRAL!! It's a BOY- Mugisha Eymard
- October 12, 2009 We Hear our baby has been chosen! Awaiting paperwork before we know who he/she is!
- August 31st APPROVAL!!!
- JUly 7th Receive word that minister's office has forwarded our Dossier to Veronique
- JUNE 29- DOSSIER DELIEVERD BY OUR POA PETER TO MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND GENDER IN KIGALI
- JUNE 27- BILL'S PA BIRTH CERT ARRIVES, THANK GOODNESS WE DIDN'T NEED IT
- JUNE 26 DOSSIER ARRIVES IN RWANDA
- June 20- DOSSIER MAILED TO RWANDA!!!! (229$ to mail it fedex priority)!!
- June 19- Final Documents arrive from DC
- May 30- overnight 5 remaining forms to Assistant Stork couier in Wash DC. $75 courier, 40$ State Dept Authen, 29$ UPS fee
- May 28- $15 Get Bill's original Birth cert authenticated in harrisburg, buy 150$ money order for rwanda embassy
- May 22- Got 2 updated doctor's forms, guardianship letter, jen's birth cert authenticated in harrisburg. Bill's notarized birth cert copy rejected. $10 to request new original. Send current original to save time.
- May 21- Get Guardianship letter, 2 Birth certs notarized $25
- May 20- Notary goes to Dr Office to notarize form $60
- May 15 Bill makes copy of current dossier (photocopy.) Wishing we'd made a complete notarized / state/ dc/ rwanda notaried copy too, "just in case"
- May 14 Contact Physican and midwife to start to get medical form updated
- May 09, 2009 One month to the day, dossier arrives back with no objection letter, 100% complete- or so we thought.
- May 04, 2009 Find out we need medical form within 3 months (ours is now about 4) Birth certs, and guardianship forms. These are not a part of current dossier.
- April 27- Call Rwanda Embassy. Informed dossier is complete but US postal service will not pick up box. Waiting for Rwanda employee to walk dossier to post office. Wishing we'd done UPS
- April 9- Washington DC! Got Dossier Docuements stamped at State Dept then hand Delivered to the Rwanda Embassy
- april 8-picked up our final docuements in harrisburg and drove to Washington, DC and arrived at 11pm
- April 6 Forgot some documents and overnighted them to harrisburg
- April 3- Got dossier papers stamped in harrisburg
- March 27- 1-600a / USCIS approval comes in mail!
- March 23- Hear from our homestudy agency that we have 1-600a approval, to come in the mail soon!
- March 10- Final round of notarizing copies to get dossier ready for state PA apostille/ authentication. Still wait on 1-600 a
- March 9 - ($37) Request another official copy of marriage cert from Nevada
- feb 14 mail homestudy to USCIS, marking all paperwork done for USCIS approval. Just WAIT for now.
- Feb 9 completed homestudy arrives, held up over a month waiting for letters of rec.
- Feb 7 USCIS fingerprint Appt.
- Feb 2 All letters in, mail to homestudy agency
- jan 22 bill's dr letter arrives but unnotarized
- jan 20 jen recruits another cooworker for letter of rec.
- jan 17 mail most of remaining documents to social worker for homestudy
- Jan 16 ($670 + 160 = 830$ ) reenergized and remail 1-600a with money order Somewhere around here my original request for a CA birtth cert arrives from state. About a Day late and a dollar short, Arnold!
- dec 26- jan 16. Jen loses steam and nothing much happens
- Dec 26th. 1-600a returned because check does not have address printed on it. Stamped that it was received Dec 16th
- Dec 24- Jen's State Fingerprint Clearance Arrives
- Dec 23 Notariezed rec. letter from Jen's boss and office manager, as well as notarized employment/income letter.
- Dec 23 ($35 )Bill gets state PA fingerprints
- Dec 19th- ($35) Jen gets state PA fingerprints.
- Dec 15 ($40) CA Birth Cert arrives from VitalCheck.com. Very fast!
- Dec 12 Mailed 1-600a Form and Signed up for PA fingerprints , more Dr Visits for Jen
- Dec 10 Signed up at VitalCheck for another CA B.C., this time through an internet site after hearing the wait could be 4 months from the state
- Dec 6- ($250 + $1250) Home Study App recieved and Scheduled for Dec 28th
- Dec 5 ($10 each= $40 total for both of us/ both clearances ) Got Child abuse and police report clearance
- Dec 4- mailed home study app
- Nov 21 Mailed PA Police and Child Abuse clearance
- Nov 20- (14$ ) Mailed CA birth request to the state of CA directly
- 10-17-08 Met Tina over the internet, who encouraged us to pursue independant adoption from Rwadna, where she and her husband had adopted a son.
- Summer 08-While we had always wanted to adopt someday, we start to feel drawn to do God's work in some way, gradually the spark of adoption turns in to a roaring flame in our hearts and minds. Oct O8- Made decision to adopt a child, felt God was ultimatly calling us to do so "Faith without works is dead"
Faith Without Works...
James 14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good [1] is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
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2 comments:
Hey Jen,
Send me your email address (to ashleysmith (at) brightok (dot) net. We have a email group of those of us who are waiting for our referrals. There are 8 families in our group, 9 if you would like to be included. We are going to share info that we get regarding our referrals, court and travel info.
Hope to hear from you!
Ashley
Jen,
Hoping it will be soon...
Chrissy
(Also in the Tina group)
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