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Twenty four months have passed and we still have no referral. Hmm, I thought the wait time was around 1 yr to 2 yrs.  I am unsure why the referral for expedited Chinese families is taking so long. Before 2007, … Continue reading →

Attended a Baby Care pre-adopt class at Kaiser Oakland.  The class had two sessions – morning and afternoon sessions.  In the morning session, the class taught us some basic stuff like how to feed your baby, hold your baby, cloth … Continue reading →

Telephone conference with our social worker to update our homestudy.

Since we are still waiting for a referral, some files needed some up-to-date information such as our medical record.  Back to the doctor’s office!

After a year has passed, we were still waiting to receive a referral or to be matched with a baby. Since we have been waiting for over a year, we needed to get re-fingerprinted for our I600.

LID (Log In Date)! Our documents received and recorded at CCAA (China Center of Adoption Affairs). Now we just wait to get a referral or to be matched with a baby. From this point in time, the wait time for … Continue reading →

DTC(Dossier to China)!  We were so relieved that our dossier was finally all put together and completed!

Visited our China Coordinator today. We gave her our files for translation, 4 pictures of us, etc. She will then mail our documents to CCAA in China.

Visited the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco to get documents authenticated.

We went to Sacramento to have some notarized documents certified.