LID

It's official!!

Our Dossier was logged in (LID = log in date) with China's Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption (CCCWA) on Friday, June 8th!!! The CCCWA received our Dossier on June 6th! Our agency sent our Dossier to China on June 1st. Overall, it was a very speedy log in date....(can take 2-3 weeks) so we are thrilled! :)

What's next?

We are now awaiting our Letter of Approval (LOA) from the CCCWA (the official document approving us to adopt Lucy Mei). The "average" wait time is approximately 60-90 days from LID....so, we are 5 days into our wait!!

Once the LOA is received, we will travel in approximately 8-10 weeks. We're guesstimating a travel date in late October or November.

Now we wait.....and pray for a speedy LOA!!!!

fingerprints

Our biometric fingerprint appointment was assigned by the United States Citizens & Immigrations Services department for May 1st in Louisville, Kentucky (approximately 2 hours from home).

Greg will be traveling the first week of May for work. We could have rescheduled, but could have delayed our appointment by weeks, if not a month. We decided to take a chance and "walk-in" to the Louisville USCIS office on April 12th.

The waiting room was very large....and very empty....except for 3 people. No line and 2 open counters.

We showed the gentleman our USCIS appointment paperwork. He glanced it over and firmly stated our appointment was on May 1st.... and pushed the paperwork back to us. UGH!!!

We explained our dilemma. Apparently, walk-ins are a frequent occurrence and the officer wanted no part of it. We were devastated....we plead our case and ultimately he agreed to do our prints.

He stared us down, said he was "memorizing our faces", said he would never do this for us again. (BTW, Greg is feeling very confident he won't have to!)

So, we are printed and will hopefully receive our I-797 approval within the next week. At that point, we will begin the process of sending all of our paperwork to the Secretary of State's office for authentication. YAY!!!