The Vaccas

Author: kristi

  • Our i800 is sent!

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    Wednesday we received our LOA via FedEx from Heartsent. I came home between assignments to get the package. I had our i800 ready to go. I just needed the LOA, and the other supporting docs to sign and include in the i800 package to USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services). I passed the FedEx…

  • LOA!!!!

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    Woohoo! Today was an awesome day! This morning we received a new video of Aili. It’s only 19 seconds long, but it is priceless. I’ve watched it at least 100 times today. She’s running, picking up balls, and we even got a smile 🙂 I called Denise at our agency after we got the video…

  • Enduring the Wait

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    It’s Labor Day and we are driving home from Ft. Myers, FL. We went down to celebrate my grandma’s 100th birthday. We celebrated Raleigh’s 6th too. It was so great to see my family from all across the US. It was also a nice distraction from the “wait to get Aili”. We are now on…

  • Care Package

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    We sent off this package for Aili this week. It will be sent to a courier service in China that will translate our letter and album labels, then send it on to Gaozhou to her orphanage. This will be her first introduction to us. The contents? The teddy bear was made with love by her…

  • LID!

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    We found out today that our LID (log in date) is Aug 1st! With the new system in China, people don’t know what to expect as far as estimated wait times for each step. But it was only 9 days since our dossier was sent to China. Yay! The next step is the longest step.…

  • One Step at a Time

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    I just about have our dossier complete. I just need a couple things notarized then go to Fulton County Clerk of Court to get some documents county authenticated. And lastly, I will take it all to the Secretary of State to have everything state authenticated. We had to hire a courier service in New York…

  • God had different plans…

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    As you know, we have been in the process of adoption from Colombia for a looong 19 months, waiting to be matched with a child. We have actively studied Spanish and the culture, and talked about Colombia to anyone who’d listen (okay, maybe me more than Sam). After waiting for so long, I was beginning…

  • Fingerprints…again.

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    This morning Sam and I went to the police station to be fingerprinted again to update our FBI background check. This was our fifth time being fingerprinted during this process, and probably won’t be the last. But this was our second time for FBI, as they have to be updated every six months. They want…

  • Matching Process

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    I knew that a committee meets to decide on a good match (family) for each child. I knew that the committee consists of, I believe, the orphanage director, reps from ICBF, a social worker/child advocate, and maybe others. But I didn’t know if the private Casas always go in chronological order. I wanted to know…

  • Officially Submitted

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    We found out today that we were officially submitted to Ayudame (orphanage in Bogota) on May 14. I’m not sure why we didn’t get this information until today. It appears there has been some miscommunication. Being in this situation, where any tad bit of information is like gold, I expect to know when there are…