August 07, 2005
Out of the INS
Our adoption application has been approved by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which basically means that Ben is now allowed to come into this country. Now our application is being "exemplified," which is just a fancy legal term for having a bunch of stamps and seals of authentication put on it. After that, the application goes to China so that they can tell us that we are allowed to travel there and take Ben back home with us.
In a typical adoption, the Chinese government would also at that time begin searching through their lists of available children in some arcane process whereby they would match us up with a suitable infant. Purportedly, one of the criteria is physical appearance, kind of mind-boggling to me, but who am I to question a process that seems to result in so many happy families?
We skipped that step, though, so hopefully (we hope, we hope!) that the approval process goes just a little bit quicker.
Great news! Good luck!
Posted by: Linda at August 7, 2005 10:48 PMOH I AM SOOOOO HAPPY!! (Yes that is a shout!!)
Posted by: Mom at August 8, 2005 01:50 PMWell hopefully it will be soon!!!
I can't wait. Just a preview... while I was logging on my 2 year old was climbed up to a out of reach drawer and got soon cooper paint. It is scarry to see a little girl covered in copper paint. It is sort of reddish looking in the dark all I could think is why is she not crying if she is bleeding so much.
Moral of the story you can never trust a quiet child to know what a child proof home is.
Love ya
I've been thinking about you two and wondering what's happening - so glad to hear the latest!
When is Ben's birthday? Is he nearly 4?
Aunt Erma
Congratulations! You are one step closer to having little Ben with you ... and the trip to China is nothing short of exciting, I would love to come along by the way, If only I could :).
Posted by: Vivi at August 12, 2005 09:57 PMThanks for all the well wishes. Ben's birthday is 10/10/01. Vivi, if we end up making the trip in October as we suspect, having you along might make the trip a little more exciting than we could handle if Jaime decided to make an early appearance :)
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