Timeline

For those that are wondering how long this process took , here is a timeline of what we completed.

5/18/04—Informational meeting at Sunny Ridge Family Center in Wheaton, Illinois
6/18/04—Handed in application materials along with autobiographies to Sunny Ridge adoption agency.
7/12/04---Joint meeting with Social worker (start of home study).
7/28/04---Judy’s individual meeting with social worker for homestudy process
8/3/04---Greg’s individual meeting with social worker for homestudy process
8/31/04---social worker visits our home (last meeting for the home study process)
10/5/04---fingerprinted at USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Services)
10/25/04---I171H arrives in mail (approval from USCIS to adopt foreign child)
11/16/04---State Seal’s done then Dossier* dropped off at Chinese Consulate in Chicago
11/23/04---Picked up Dossier from Chinese Consulate showing Chinese Authentications
11/24/04---Dossier hand delivered to Sunny Ridge Adoption Agency
12/2/04---DOSSIER MAILED TO CHINA!!!
12/15/04---LOG IN DATE (China logged in our dossier)
January 05---waiting
February 05---waiting
March 05---waiting
April 05---waiting
May 05---waiting
most of June 05---waiting
6/27/05---Referral!!! YIPPEE!!!!!
7/15/05---Acceptance letters mailed by Sunny Ridge to China.
8/3/05---Travel approval
9/7/05 to 9/22/05---travel dates
9/11/05--Gotcha Day

*Dossier is the collection of papers we gathered that needed to go to China to request to adopt a child. This consisted of items such as original birth certificates, marriage license, health forms, police clearance letter, the homestudy report, employment letters to name a few. We collected these during the summer of 2004.