Many Milestones
The past month has brought us many milestones in the China adoption process. Our I-800A was approved after a -gasp- eighty day wait. This is the preliminary approval from USCIS for our family to adopt from China. Once we received this approval, out agency could send our dossier to China (DTC), which was done on 12/18. On 12/29, our dossier was logged into the CCCWA in China (LID), and from here, we wait for our dossier to be translated and eventually matched with our son since we have pre-approval to adopt him. The letter we are waiting on is called the Letter Seeking Confirmation (LSC), also know as the Letter of Acceptance (LOA). This is an invitation from China for us to say Yes! We want to adopt this child. LOAs have been coming faster so we hope ours does, too! What does that mean for travel to bring home Bennett? Our agency is predicting travel in late spring/early summer, but that could change to earlier or later depending on the speed of receiving our LOA, and then the nex...