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THE PROCESS... 

We began this process back in February, 2007...

It includes...

Application:

Applying to be accepted by our agency,

After acceptence, we began to build our dossier!

Dossier:

Paperwork includes, but is not limited to...

Medical Examinations

Background Checks

Fingerprinting

Letters of Reference

Birth Certificates

Marriage Certificates

Proof of Employment

Financial Statement

Proof of Insurance (Life and Medical)

Home Study Visits

Passports

Autobiographies

ISCIS approval

Travel to bring our kids HOME!!!

This involves getting immunizations, 5-7 days hotel stay, and court date.

And Finally...Home!

A whole lot of time, money, and last but not least a whole lot of prayers....As you can see, we are very committed to this. Everything above is DONE! 

UPDATES:

Feb. 20th to 28th: Beth and Jon travel and bring all of the children HOME! 

Feb. 12th: we will be on our way in 8 days to bring them home!

Feb. 2nd: we passed court and will travel before the end of the month!

Dec. 19th: We have a COURT DATE scheduled!

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Dec. 11th: Our letter of acceptance of our referral is on it's way! 

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Dec. 5th: We have received our official REFERRAL!!!! Yes!!!! Now we must gather the funds QUICKLY! 

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Oct. 21: Our Dossier has been sent!!

We had planned to send our dossier on Oct. 1st, but We had a little glitch. We needed an addendum to our home study for USCIS. Our homestudy had said we were approved for 2-3 children...so, we had to have it changed to 4.

Our addendum arrived here last week, so, we put everything together and sent it out!! 

October 22nd!!!

Our Dossier has arrived at our agency and will be sent to the country in the next week or 2...!!!!! Our children will be home sometime soon!

BIG NEWS !!!!!!

We have found a sibling group of 4 waiting to be adopted!

Stay tuned for more... Also check page 10

and photos soon!

We are QUICKLY moving forward toward the goal of adopting them! They are on hold for us now!

This means our financial needs are URGENT!

We sent our dossier Oct. 21

We will get our referral for them and court dates mid to late Nov....

And...we will travel to bring them home mid Jan.!!!!!

(see page 9 for the details of costs!) 

The final piece of our Dossier arrived early Oct....We only need to get our mid-payment money together to send our paper work to Ethiopia, ....TODAY! DONE!

The Next Step:  pray for....Funding:

That ...God will show us the money!