From Oklahoma to Africa and Back: No News

Our Timeline

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!

Thursday, November 29, 2012

No News

We received a call from Gladney this morning letting us know that there was no opinion issued on our case today (it's already late evening in Ethiopia). We were expecting this, so it's not a real letdown. We're hoping to hear good news in the next week or two!!