Here is our itinerary: Remember that China is 13 hours AHEAD !! Huhhot is in Northern China about 300 miles west of Beijing. Guangzhou is in Southeastern China near Hong Kong.
March 24 we fly out at 6 a.m. to Chicago and then Chicago to Beijing. Arrive in Beijing on Thurs afternoon and travel to New Day . We will meet Adrian probably on Friday and spend some time with him on Fri and Sat.
Contact: karen@newdaycreations.com
Website; www.newdaycreations.com
Phone: 86-10-8028-2124
Sunday March 28th we will fly with Adrian and a nanny to his home province. We will be staying in Huhhot, Inner Mongolia at Shangi-La Hotel. We actually get custody of Adrian Sunday afternoon. We will stay until Friday April 2 and get all of the adoption finalized and receive his passport.
Website: www.shangri-la.com/en/property/huhhot/shangrila
Phone: 86-471-336-6888
On Friday April 2 we will fly to Guangzhou. We will be staying at The Garden Hotel Guangzhou China. Here we will get Adrian’s visa and be DONE!!
Website: www.garden-hotel-guangzhou.cn
Phone: 86-20-8600-7566
ON April 8th we will take a 2 hour train ride to Hong Kong. We will be staying at the Harbour Grand Kowloon hotel. We will spend a day celebrating at Hong Kong Disneyland on April 9th. Yes, we’ve lost our minds!! That should be established by now J.
Website: www.harbourgrand.com/kowloon/
Phone: 852-2621-3188
ON April 10th we leave China to Fly home. We are SUPPOSED to arrive home at 8:03 Sat night on a United flight.
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We are creating this blog to journal about what our two precious girls are up to and the journey to our third child--a boy.
Adoption Timeline
- March 9, 2010--confirmed CA for 4/16. We leave for China on March 25th.
- March 8, 2010 TRAVEL APPROVAL
- Feb 11 2010 Article 5 sent to CCAA
- Jan 23, 2010 I800 Cabled to Guangzhou
- Jan 15, 2010 I800 Provisional approval
- Dec 28, 2009 Letter of Acceptance
- October 19, 2009 Adrian gets his care package
- October 14, 2009 LID--log in date
- September 21, 2009 DTC--Dossier to China
- September 14,2009 --USCIS approval arrived!!!!
- September 4, 2009 Fingerprinted by USCIS
- August 21, 2009 Rec'd fingerprint appt letter. We go Sept 4 to be fingerprinted
- August 20,2009 Rec'd USCIS "Receipt Acknowledgement" saying that they had rec'd our I800
- August 6, 2009 USCIS received our I800
- August 5, 2009 Mailed dossier to our social worker and Mailed I800 to USCIS
- August 4,2009 Homestudy letter has been issued and I can officially mail our I800
- July 16, 2009 Homestudy official went to DHR
- July 15, 2009 Preapproval for Adrian arrived
- July 7, 2009 Dr. at IAC confirms that Adrian is healthy
- July 6 Got the call from our social worker that they had matched us with Adrian
- July 5, 2009 Got all information to Janell so that we are ready to go should a referral come this week.
- July 2, 2009 Janell Lucas, Special needs coordinator, sent me package of material to get ready so that we will be ready to accept a referral quickly
- June 28, 2009 Chris wakes me up at 7:30 to tell me that our social worker sent an email. Our facilitator has found Adrian's file. CCAA has it and it is supposed to be uploaded to shared list "soon". Our facilitator will be watching for his file and try to match us with him if possible. Social worker interprets "soon" to mean in the next month .
- June 27, 2009--Chris and I talk and take the weekend to pray through things. We feel that we must pursue Adrian until God closes the door. We contact Doug and Janice. Our social workekr sends Adrian's information on to our China facilitator. I request that the facilitator find Adrian's file if possible.
- June 26,2009--Our social worker calls and leaves a message to call her. I miss her but an email explains that our facilitator is ready to match us with a child. I have a panic attack. She wants to know if we know anymore about Adrian
- Early week of June 22--Our social worker contacts us to say that our homestudy is almost complete and just needs to be reviewed. Homestudy will be sent to DHR for about a month then onto Immigration for approval (3 months) and then dossier completion (about 2 months)
- June 3, 2009 FBI finally clears Chris as a suitable parent--boy am I glad! :0
- Month of May--many calls to our representative . After a little political pull, Chris' second set of prints are expedited.
- Early May--Call FBI again and find out that Chris ' prints are denied.
- Month of March and April --MANY phone calls to FBI to see if they have yet to receive his prints. Finally find out that ABI sent prints to FBI who denied them because a date was missing. FBI sends prints back to ABI . ABI writes the date on them and sends back to FBI sometime around April 27.
- April 6, 2009 Very brief home tour for our homestudy
- March 20, 2009 Homestudy visit at our agency's office and a trip to the zoo
- March 5, 2009 Medical exams for our homestudy and dossier
- March 3, 2009 Chris and I have both complete 10 LONG hours of Hague Treaty training
- Feb 26, 2009 receive Chris' letter tha ABI cleared his prints. FBI has no record of ever receiving his prints. GREAT!
- Feb 3, 2009 Receive clearances by ABI and FBI for Shawna's prints
- Jan 18, 2009 Chris and I file our official adoption application to begin the adoption process
- Jan 6, 2009 Chris and I are fingerprinted for criminal clearances
- Dec 31, 2008 Chris and I decide to begin our 3rd adoption
Finally a family of five
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