Alex & Malia: Documents To China

Friday, February 29, 2008

Documents To China

Our dossier was sent to China today!!! That gives us a DTC (documents to China) date of 2/29/2008. Leap day!

Now the real wait begins. It's going to be at least 2 years, but soon we will be meeting other families with DTC dates close to ours and we will all possibly fly to China together when we finally get our referrals.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: yeah!!! -Kate; February 29, 2008 at 1:16 PM
Anonymous said...: We're gonna have to hire a moderator for this comments section ;).

By the time Malia arrives, Alex can probably handle the website updates :)

-Marc; February 29, 2008 at 1:25 PM

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Timeline - things are happening now!

LID 3/4/2008 NSN (non-special needs) That's our Log-In-Date, when the Chinese Consulate received our dossier.

We filed our application for a Waiting Child 1/10/2011. That means we can access the list of children considered to have a special need.

LOI 3/27/2011 SN (special needs): That's the date we sent in our Letter of Intent for Malia. She is beautiful!

PA 3/31/2011: That's our Pre-Approval date. Woohoo!

LSC 4/11/2011: Letter Seeking Confirmation which is the Formal Approval. It's OFFICIAL!!

Our signed LSC was mailed to China on 4/15/2011 and delivered to the CCCWA on Monday, 4/18/2011. Then the CCCWA (China Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption) begins working with Malia's Provincial Civil Affairs office to issue our Travel Approval (TA).

TA 5/10/2011: China has granted the Travel Approval

CA given on 5/17/2011 for appointment on 6/8/2011: Congratulations! The American Consulate has confirmed your appointment for June 8th @ 8:30am

5/25/2011 Leave for China

5/30/2011 Gotcha Malia!

8/5/2011 Malia's first birthday! Big celebration!

9/9/2011 Malia's cleft lip surgery

12/21/2011 Malia's cleft palate surgery