Usha - Our beautiful new daughter

Usha - Our beautiful new daughter

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Still trying to figure out the blog

I am still trying to figure out how to set up my blog...so here goes again.
In the meantime I thought I would post our timeline for our adoption of Usha:

Dec 2008 - Finished homestudy (we actually had it written for China as we thought we were adopting from there)
Jan 2009 - Received I-171H from USCIS (for China)
April 2009 - Saw a posting about a baby on Rainbowkids and called agency (AIAA) to inquire
April 209 - Was told that baby was no longer available but wondered if we'd be interested in information on an older girl
April 2009 - Received info on Usha with picture and video..knew she was ours!
April/May 2009 - Had our homestudy and USCIS ammended to India
June 18, 2009 - Dossier sent to India ...(phewww! that's alot of paperwork to put together)
Oct. 14, 2009 - Recieved NOC (no objection clearance) from India
Nov. 2009 - waiting for guardianship so we can travel but received new pictures and written report on Usha
Jan, 2010 - Received word that we passed scrutiny and are waiting for a hearing date to grant guardianship

more as it comes up.......

Monday, May 18, 2009

I am just setting up this blog to chronical our journey to bring Usha home from India. We are currently going through the paperchasing phase and trying to put together our dossier to send to India.