List

It's official!! We are on the list! Last week I sent in our signed agency contract. On Tuesday i spoke with our dossier consultant and then to the waiting child coordinator who officially put us on the waiting child list! So we are officially "waiting" again. What this means for us is once a child comes up on the waiting child list that matches our profile we will get to look over her profile and decide if we want to accept that referral. The waiting child program is a little different then the non-waiting child program in that there really isn't a "line" we are in. There is also no clear wait time. We could receive a referral at any time. The longest wait we were told is about 12-14 months for referral but most people receive their referral much sooner then that. I am really hoping we get a referral by Christmas but i know that it might not happen by then.

So now i have to get our dossier ready again. Our dossier will consist of our USCIS approval, birth certificates, marriage license, copies of our passport, a financial statement, employment records, medical forms, local police clearance, family photo's and our home study. Oh and did i mention we need 3 copies of each. All these will need to be notarized, state certified, then sent to the China consulate to be authenticated, then translated. Once all that is done our dossier can be sent to China to be logged in.
It may sound like a lot but i hope to have our dossier logged in by the end of the year. That is my goal. The only thing that might hold it up is our CIS approval. Well maybe not. We don't have to get re-approved, it's just a country change so hopefully it will only take a week or 2. OK maybe that's wishful thinking on my part.