Jan 12, 2010: First adoption seminar Jan 23, 2010: Second adoption seminar Jan 23, 2010: Picked Gladney as our agency and Ethiopia as our country Jan 24, 2010: Dropped initial Gladney paperwork in mail Feb 8, 2010: Zach's passport renewed Feb 9, 2010: Gladney orientation phone call Feb 9, 2010: Requested Gladney formal application Feb 9, 2010: Received Gladney application Feb 13, 2010: Sent I-600A to US CIS Feb 18, 2010: Mailed Gladney group 1 documents Feb 22, 2010: Mailed Gladney group 2 documents Mar 5, 2010: FBI fingerprinting Mar 8, 2010: Mailed Gladney group 3 documents Mar 19, 2010: Home study Apr 16, 2010: Received FBI clearance Apr 30, 2010: Gladney approved! May 7, 2010: Received CIS appt. May 18, 2010: CIS fingerprinting appt. May 26, 2010: CIS approval! Jun 2, 2010: Dossier submitted and ON THE WAITLIST Oct 18, 2012: REFERRAL for 6 month old girl!!! Nov 8, 2012: submitted to court Nov 29, 2012: scheduled MOWCYA review Dec 17, 2012: MOWCYA approval and notification of court date Dec 24, 2012: first time to see our little girl in person! Dec 25, 2012: Christmas with our little girl! Dec 26, 2012: court date! Feb 19, 2013: Took placement - Forever Family Day! Feb 21, 2013: Embassy appointment Feb 23, 2013: Home!
Today was our fifth fingerprinting experience. Since it was our third time at the USCIS office we're starting to recognize the fingerprinters by face....
We were kind of hoping THE CALL would come the one time Zach wasn't allowed to have his phone with him but we didn't get that lucky!