Here We Go

After getting our referral we had to hustle up. So, we sent in our Letter of Intent to China, seeking Pre-Approval. May 7, 2009 we went to Charlotte to get fingerprinted and then shot off to Raleigh to get all of our dossier documents State Certified. It is tough to hand over your whole adoption lifes paperwork to someone else, my heart sank. Once they Authenticate everything the papers go to the agency and then off to China, woo hoo. In the meantime we got our Pre-Approval from China May 27, 2009, one hurdle down and many more to come. We got our actual Log in Date, which means China has your dossier, on July 20, 2009. Now it is out of our immediate hands. The dossier goes through a translation process and then approval process. Our paper work was actually translated and sent to review August 6, 2009, almost there. Yay!!!! We got our LOA, Letter of Approval from China September 30, 2009. Now the mad rush to fill out more paperwork, but compared to the dossier it was a piece of cake.