Saturday 21 July 2007

Almost forgot!!

In all the Harry Potter excitement I almost forgot!! We received a letter from the DfES to say that our papers were sent to the Chinese Embassy on 19th July (last Thursday) YEAH!!!!!!

It is currently taking about two weeks for the Embassy to process the papers, which takes us to the 2nd August. That means we should definitely be DTC (finally) in August 2007, twenty (yes TWENTY!!!) months after we first contacted our LA.

We've also been instructed to get our International Money Orders (aka International Bankers Drafts) ready. This is the fee for registering our application with the CCAA and the fee to translate our papers into Mandarin. These IMOs can apparently cause a few problems to get hold of, as they have to be in US dollars but payable to a Chinese organisation. Hopefully our bank will be one of the understanding and helpful ones!!!

3 comments:

sally said...

Hi Janet
found you via Roseanne's blog. Great news soon you will be DTC! Hurrah!

Janet said...

Hi Sally,

Thank you - it will be such a relief to finally have our papers in China :-) I can't wait :-)

Love
Janet

lara said...

Congratulations how exciting!!
thankyou for your email if you click on my name in blue it will take you straight to my blog.i dont have a return email address for you so if you can work out how to do it via caf again then i can email you back and also let me know which country you are interested in as hubby has worked in two places so im unsure what one you are most interested in.


OUR ETHIOPIAN ADOPTION TIMELINE


25th May 2009 - See New Child again & Court Date

23rd May 2009 - Fly back to Ethiopia

26th March 2009 - Fly to Ethiopia :-)

3rd March 2009 - Dossier Arrived at Orphanage

26th February 2009 - Dossier sent to Ethiopia

22nd December 2008 - Dossier back at DCSF

28th November 2008 - Certificate of Eligibility ISSUED

6th October 2008 - PASSED Approval Panel

7th July 2008 - Homestudy Update Started

28th Feb 2008 - Told LA we wished to change country

OUR CHINA ADOPTION TIMELINE

Formally withdrew from the China Adoption Programme 17th July 2008

LID (Logged in Date) with CCAA 16th August 2007

Documents to China 10th August 2007

Passed Approval Panel 5th March 2007

Homestudy started 6th June 2006

First Contact with our LA 1st Jan 2006