Finally.....

we received our approval from U.S. Immigration/NBC of our I-800A Application. This approval means that we are "eligible and suitable prospective adoptive parents to adopt a Convention Child." This is something that we should be very excited about because with this approval our Dossier can finally be sent to China. Unfortunately though, as stated in our last post, because of the wait time increasing, we are not sure if we are going to pursue the adoption. We are looking into other options in hopes to add a child to our family sooner. I contacted our agency to let them know what we are doing and to find out how long we can hold off on sending our Dossier. They informed us that we have until March 9, 2009, as that is when documents in our Dossier begin to expire. So we do have several months until we have to make a decision as to whether or not we are going to follow through with the adoption.

To think that it has taken almost 8 months to get to this point is extremely frustrating and mind boggling to me. It is very sad for the children that need homes and very sad for the couples that want to give these children loving homes.