Although a lot of our family and friends know this already, I am officially announcing to the world that we are starting the process to adopt again. We are going to go the international route (from Rwanda) this time and I am very anxious to get the process started.
From all of the research I have done, we should have a new son join our family in 12 - 18 months. I have already called the social worker that did the home study for our domestic adoption and he is willing and able to do our home study for this adoption too. I am hoping that we'll be able to get the home study done relatively quickly since he already knows us and can use our prior home study as a starting point for a lot of the boiler plate stuff. Unfortunately the first part of the process (after the home study) is getting approval from the INS and the Dallas field office has one of the longest processing times in the country. The national average to process a I-600A is 3.5 months and the Dallas office averages 7.7 months. We are just starting the process and I am already annoyed by the potential delays but just pray and hope that our son is/will be well taken care of until we can get to Rwanda.
I'll be using this blog to track our progress in this journey.
I will be happy to answer any questions if you leave them in the comments.
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About Me
- KLTTX
- DFW, Texas, United States
- My DH, Chris, and I have a wonderful seven year old son, Davis, who we conceived after trying for 4 years. We also have another son, Samuel, through domestic adoption who was born in August 2008. We are currently in the process of adopting our third son from Rwanda.
Rwanda Adoption Time Line
- Received our Approval to Adopt Letter - April 27
- We are officially DTR - July 27
- Document arrive in Kigali to POA - July 26
- Documents on the way to our POA in Kigali - July 22
- Received documents back from D.C. - July 21
- Documents approved by Rwandan Embassy - July 20
- Documents at Rwandan Embassy for approval - June 29
- Documents fully authenticated at State Department - June 29
- Documents received by courier and a portion authenticated at State Deparment - June 28
- Documents on the way to courier in DC for more authentication - June 26
- Documents received back from Austin - June 25
- Documents Headed to Austin for Authenication - June 18
- Dossier Doucments Complete - June 17
- i171 Received from USCIS - June 7
- Notice of Fingerprint Appointment Received - April 17
- I600-A filed with USCIS - April 6
- Final Home Study Report Received - April 2, 2010
- Home Study Visit - February 2010
- Decided to Adopt from Rwanda - November 2009
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Books I Have Read in 2009
- The 5th Horseman, James Patterson
- Saving Faith, David Baldacci
- 4th of July, James Patterson
- 3rd Degree, James Patterson
- 2nd Chance, James Patterson
- 1st to Die, James Patterson
- Imitation in Death, JD Robb
- Portrait in Death, JD Robb
- First Family, David Baldacci
- Purity in Death, JD Robb
- The Christmas Sweater, Glen Beck
- Reunion in Death, JD Robb
- Seduction in Death, JD Robb
- Interlude in Death, JD Robb
- Betrayal in Death , JD Robb
- Divine Justine, David Baldacci
- Judgment in Death, JD Robb
- The Tales of Beetle the Bard, JK Rowling
- Breaking Dawn, Stephanie Meyer
- Eclipse, Stepanie Meyer
12 comments:
OH wow!! That is so cool!! Loren and I want another baby but I have rough pregnancies. After Morgan my doc wanted to tie my tubes because he doesn't recommend I have another baby. Even recently he has told me that I shouldn't get pregnant. And we have been trying for 14 months with no luck. So we have tossed around the idea of adoption. It's scary. Loren has 3 adopted siblings. Anyway I'm interested to see your process! I'm so excited for you.
I know this is a personal decision but just wondering why you are going for another boy and not a girl? Not that it matters...just curious. Also, can you only adopt boys from Rwanda? Anyway thanks for any info you've got Kelly!!
That is SO awesome! I am so, so, so excited for you guys.
I hope the Dallas office can get their butts in gear. There's nothing worse than waiting on other people's incompetence, especially for something so important!
Looking forward to reading along as things develop.
Congratulations! Very exciting news. I am looking forward to reading all about it.
Wonderful news! Congrats on making the decision. Can't wait to see the journey play out.
Fantastic news! I'm so excited for you and your growing family!
what exciting news! i'll be looking for updates! very nice blog you have. my best to your family.
Congrats! I know it is a huge step just to make to decision. How exciting!
Thanks also for your kindness over my way...it is much appreciated!
~from LFCA
nicole
So exciting! Glad you're moving forward with this.
Do you have to go to the Dallas office you mentioned? Or is that just the processing office. We had our fingerprints done at the office on Northwest highway, they're supposed to be the quickest.
Our Home Study was approved on Dec 22nd, but not sure when they sent it to USCIS. We received our letter to come to do fingerprints on Jan 22nd (with no set date). Did fingerprints on Feb 13th (be sure to check when the office is closed). Had to reword the Home Study because of a format change. And received our I-171h in our mailbox on April 7th.
Of course that was 2007 so things have changed since them I'm sure.
Good luck and I'll be praying for you and your son.
What age range will he be when he comes home?
here from LFCA to say congratulations and good luck!
Yeah! I'm so happy for you. Is it too early to just wish you congrats?
Congratulations! I'll be following along as you blog about it for sure.
Terrific!
May I suggest that you make a friend in the Dallas field office? It never hurts to have someone with an inside track that can go to bat for you, to speed things up :)
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