We have really made a lot of progress the past few weeks! I never heard back from the 2nd try on the Biometric Fingerprinting so we assumed that was a good sign. A couple of weeks ago, Karla (our case worker) said we should be getting close to our approval so she called in to check. She sent me an email last week saying we should be receiving our approval. Wednesday of last week I received a strange phone call with the numbers 816. Yes, only those three numbers. It was a call from Immigration Services saying I needed to fax her a copy of our marriage license from the courthouse, not our marriage certificate. So, I jumped right on that the very same afternoon. Thursday morning I got the "816" and she said she still had not received it. This time I scanned and emailed it to her. I asked her (being my nosey self) if this meant that we were closer to being approved and she said "Oh no! I have already approved you!" Yippee!!! On Saturday, we received the letter!! This is extremely important. This means that now our Dossier (all required paperwork) can be sent to China. The letter states that we are suitable to adopt from another country. Karla is working on authenticating our Dossier which takes approximately 2-3 weeks. We have already mailed the payments for that process and our first payment that will be wired to China.
I spoke with Karla this morning and she said to expect a referral in March. After we are matched with a referral, it could take up to 6 months before we travel to China. We are so excited and feel so blessed! Thank you, God for choosing us to take this path!
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