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Archive for March, 2007

Almost on the list!

Posted in Adoption on March 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I just mailed off our ENTIRE dossier (minus our 797 or 171-H) to FTIA this afternoon.  As soon as I got home, I checked the mail and there was our fingerprint appointment!
YEEEEEEEEEE!
So, in an ideal world, this is what will happen:
            1.) FTIA will work on translating our dossier while we get fingerpinted and wait [...]

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Homestudy arrived on Monday! Things are moving along!

Posted in Adoption on March 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Our approved Home Study arrived on Monday, so I shipped off our I600A Tuesday and a second copy to the state to get it authenticated/certified.  When the one from the state gets back, it will go to the Vietnamese Consulate.  Then we’ll just wait on getting our finger print appointment and getting our I 797 back [...]

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All ready changed my mind

Posted in Adoption on March 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »

OK, I’ve nixed Neil now.  I like James.  Then he could be Jim or Jimmy.
 So, Clara or James.
Let’s see how long this lasts.   

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Baby names

Posted in Adoption on March 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Our plan is to give our child an “American sounding” first name and keep his/her Vietnamese name as his/her middle name.  (Our child with have a Vietnamese name given to him/her by either his/her parents or by the orphanage workers.) 
So, for a first name, I think we have come to a decision.  If we have a boy, we will [...]

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One of our Bumps in the Road

Posted in Adoption on March 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »

When Daniel and I went to the Sheriff’s Department to have our non-existent criminal histories printed up all official like, we came across a very insistent Deputy.  The record of our non-record needed to be printed on letterhead for the Sheriff’s Department.  When we requested this, the Deputy advised us that she could not turn [...]

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Welcome to our Adoption!

Posted in Adoption on March 2, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Hello, and welcome to our adoption blog.  We are in the process of adopting a child from Vietnam!   (Yay babies!) 
We are working with Families Thru International Adoption, and they accepted our application on 01/09/2007.  http://www.ftia.org/ 
So far, they have been pretty with it and our collection of dossier documents has gone fairly well.  (Only a [...]

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