Immigration

Short update, we were finally able to get our fingerprinting done last week. So now, again, we wait. We should be getting immigration approval this week or next and then our dossier can be routed through the government authorities, translated, and on to China. It feels like we have been waiting on this step forever...but this is just the way the adoption process goes apparently.

A member of the facebook group (thank you Mandy Rae!!) I am in made this little graphic on the adoption steps--so, for anyone interested-this is basically what we are going through. There is light at the end of all of this--and our boy is worth the wait! We are basically on step 5-but it seems steps 1-4 are some of the most time consuming since we are already matched with our boy. We are still hopeful for mid-summer travel!

 

 



 

  We also did a lot of prep in getting the bedroom ready for Titus and Zhen to share. We painted the walls and ceiling and got the bed ready to put the bunk on top. They may not share right away-as with any new child coming into a family, we will take it as it goes and just try to meet everyone's needs as they arise.

Thank you all again for your support. Please keep praying for our adoption auction on March 14.  And, as always, please pray for our boy's safety and for him to be loved on. Pray for continued forward progress in our paperwork so that we can go to him as soon as possible.

 

Much Love,

Aaron and Sarah