As some may know, in March we were called with the news that the little girl we had thought was to be ours was switched by the CCCWA from Special Needs to Healthy. Now we are no longer qualified to adopt her. We cried, hugged, felt a bit crushed. Then we got our minds back to reviewing the waiting children available from China & started reviewing shared lists and agency specific lists to try and find our child. Many disappointing leads, then one that looked like she may be "the one". On Friday we heard back from a couple of the professionals we had sent this little girl's file to. All were very positive and hopeful, so Friday evening, we put in our letter of acceptance for the referral of Xiao, a 6 year old cutie who has convergent strabismus in her right eye, and Apraxia of speech, a neurological condition that effects her ability to speak. Both conditions are treatable. The eyes w/ vision therapy, corrective lenses, and possible one time surgery. The speech w/ intensive speech therapy. So nothing that is life threatening, or requires lifelong treatment. So on we go on another adventure with our Family. Our agency will send our referral aggreement on to the CCCWA, they will review and send us the "PA" or pre-approval.
Our Dossier specialist told us today that our FL docs arrived in Tallahassee on Friday, and were hand delivered via courier that morning. She is due to receive them back this afternoon. Tomorrow, all docs will go to her DC courier, who will walk them thru the US State Dept and the DC China Consulate. Then they will be turned around, so that she should have them back by next Monday (May 9th). Then our Dossier will be ready to send to our agency GWCA. After they have reviewed and approved, it will be sent on to China with our Letter of Intent, to adopt Xiao.
Our agency said it has been averaging around 6-7 months from this point on before we would be able to travel, due mostly to all the additional regulations adhering to the Hague Convention. Hopefully we will be able to make the trip before the year ends, as the adoption tax credit is also ending this year, and that's a lot of money.
As soon as we are able to share more details and pictures, we will gladly do so. For now we are feeling so relieved that we have found our daughter, and she is relatively healthy and seems to have a very sweet personality.
Monday, May 2, 2011
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