Ok... well this home study process is taking waaay looonger than I would like. There have been some additional forms we have had to get. And we also had to get additional references, so it can't be helped.
I am hoping that this will be completed and sent to our placement agency THIS WEEK - then A Helping Hand will review it and granted there aren't any changes necessary they will send it on to USCIS and then we will begin the 2 - 3 month wait for approval from the US Government. They must give a family their approval before you are allowed to adopt internationally.
Once we receive that approval we can then send our Dossier to China and get officially Logged In - and then the wait for their approval begins...
We are currently waiting on Pre-Approval from China - which we are told sometimes they issue and sometimes they do not. I think we would like to get it though. Just to let us know that we are on their radar, so to speak. We sent in our Letter of Intent on 3/14/08.
In the spirit of our adoption & the fact that we are trying to "learn" some phrases in an effort to be able to communicate with Aric, I thought we should have a Mandarin Chinese Phrase for the Day so here is one for today-
"I Love You" Wo Ai Ni - said like Whoa A Nee
Aric Wo Ai Ni -- we are going as fast as we can!!!!
