Okay, so here is where we are...on Feb 13th our I-800 was provisionally approved! We got that letter in the mail on Feb 18th! Then the I-800 paperwork is sent to the National Visa Center where it is entered into the computer system again! Then it is sent to Guangzhou China to the US Consulate there. Our instructions from the adoption agency were to send an inquiry via email to the NVC to ask them if our I-800 had been received and forwarded on, to China. On Friday afternoon, Feb 21, we got word back from them via email saying that they had received it and entered it into the system and forwarded it on to Guangzhou! So Friday afternoon when I was trying to get out of town for Abby's soccer tournament, I was madly filing our online DS-260. Which is Lucy Chenguo's application for a visa for her to enter the United States. So now we wait again....for the next step. Article 5, which is the last step before our TA (travel authorization!) Stay tuned....it won't be long...
Abby's team won their division in the tournament! Go Boom!
5 more days until our fundraiser ends....adopttogether.org/lucy
We are so amazed with the generosity and touched by the outpouring of well wishes!
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Thank You To Our Amazing Donors!
A Great Big Thank You
To All Of Our Amazing Donors!!!!
It is with extreme gratitude and humility that we write this
letter of thanks to ALL of our generous friends and family and friends of
friends and family that have contributed monetarily to help us bring Lucy
home. We would also like to thank our
ANONYMOUS donors as well as Elizabeth Pottle, Ryan Epstein, and Elaine and Eric
Maul (whom we have not been able to find your addresses to thank you formally):
This is the first time that we have ever asked our family
and friends to help us fund something of this magnitude! With each donation, the financial burden of
international adoption is definitely lifting!
We are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and it is becoming very
real that soon we will be traveling to China to bring Lucy home forever!
Following is the timeline of Lucy Chenguo’s adoption:
May 16, 2013 Saw
Lucy Chenguo’s picture for the first time!
May 24, 2013 Decided
to work with Bay Area Adoption Services and began paperwork!
July 11, 2013 All
Dossier Documents shipped to BAAS minus Homestudy & I800A
July 23, 2013 Chen
Guo’s file arrived at BAAS from China!
July 25, 2013
Submitted Letter of Intent (LOI) to adopt Chen Guo!
Aug 14, 2013
Received PA (Pre-Approval) from China to adopt Chen Guo!
Aug 22, 2013 I800A
filed by CCAI (Homestudy Agency)
Sept 13, 2013
Authenticated Homestudy sent to BAAS!
Sept 23, 2013
Fingerprinted by Homeland Security
Nov 12, 2013
Long-awaited I800A approval came in mail!
Nov 22, 2013 Last Dossier
Document arrived at BAAS & Dossier to China!!!!!!!
Dec 4, 2013 Dossier
Logged In, in China!!!!
Dec 7, 2013 Launched
adoption fundraiser through Adopttogether!
Jan 29, 2014 LOA
from China! (Letter of Acceptance)
Jan 30, 2014 - Shipped
I800 to Texas
- Shipped LOA packet back to BAAS
-
Wired money to China for Chen Guo’s visa to enter the USA!
-
Signed and returned Post-Adoption Obligation Letter
-
Paid Post-Adoption fee (social worker visits and reports for
China for 5 years)
Feb 4, 2014 Mailed
Lucy Chenguo’s CARE PACKAGE
Feb 13, 2014: - VISA
APPLICATOINS delivered to Chinese Consulate in Chicago!
- I800 provisionally approved!
There are just a few steps left before we get our TA (Travel
Authorization) and buy our tickets to China!
It goes really fast right at the last and it looks like we will travel
in April!
A few things we will be doing very soon now: 1- dusting off the blog we created before we
went to China to adopt Eli 2- getting
an updated look for it 3- we will begin
posting the last steps we will go through before we leave 4- we will be sharing our journey to China
with you on our blog as well.
Whereyouleadmelordiwillgo.blogspot.com
Also, we will be ending the fundraiser on February 28, 2014
to allow for time to go through the grant process to get the money out before
we travel! Adopttogether.org/lucy
If you shared our link on Facebook previously, could you
please do it again in hopes that we will be able to reach the donors listed
above as well as all of our anonymous donors.
Thank you so much!
In closing, what an experience of a lifetime! To be able to welcome a new member into our
family from China and to have such support from all of you! Truly, you have all helped to make it
possible! Thank you from the bottom of
our hearts!
Sincerely,
David & Gail & Family
Adopttogether.org/lucy
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