The Williamson's

We are officially logged into the system. Our LID (Log In Date) is 05/18/2006. The wait now begins.

Paperchasing is over. All our documents have been certified and authenticated. They are on their way to China to be logged in, translated, reviewed, and matched. It may seem pretty quick but we have to wait in line. Official DTC date is 05/12/2006

We were approved by Immigration to adoption international. Not that we thought we would be denied it just took a while to get it approved.

We received our fingerprinting notice. We heard you can just walk in and get them without waiting until your appointment date and time. We tried it and we were in and out in 10 minutes. YAY!!!

We submitted our application to CIS to adopt international and bring her home. We heard it takes about a month to get it approved. We are hoping it will be a speedy month.

Today, we started paperchasing. Basically this is chasing down all the documents required to submit our dossier to China. All the paperwork has to be certified and authenticated then translated.

Our application with the adoption agency has been approved. We were assigned a social worker, Beverley Lewin. She should be contacting us soon to start the home study process.

We made the decision to expand our family through the miracle of adoption. Today, we submitted our application with an adoption agency.