Viaje de Amor: Home Again

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Home Again

We had a long day traveling home yesterday, with delays and running through the airports to make connections, etc...but we made it home safe, and all of our luggage did, as well. I returned to the office with a pile of things to get caught up on and to accomplish. Yet, today also held the opportunity for us to connect with our older daughters. Alicia spent the day with our oldest daughter shopping for college, and I had the privilege of taking our second daughter, Alexa, to take her drivers exam, and I watched her pass and get her driver's license. The four of us will be preparing to go on a mission trip to Mexico in two weeks, and then Ariana is off to college, and we begin packing for the second trip to Honduras. Hopefully, we will be traveling soon to bring Ashton and Alia home.

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Where are we in the Adoption Process?

We wrote a post titled What is the Process? that outlined our process for adoption for a child from Honduras through Living Hope Adoption Agency. Here is our journey in the process, so far:

We decided to adopt (see Our Journey to Adoption)
We discussed where we would adopt from (see Why Honduras?) and the age and gender of the child we were hoping to adopt (see Boy or Girl?).
We submitted the application for adoption with Living Hope Adoption Agency. (Feb. 3, 2011)
By the grace of God we submitted the contract to Living Hope in early February. (see Hurdles) - Feb. 7, 2011
We began the courses and each night was spent in front of the computer learning about the issues related to adoption. (see Back to School) - Feb. 24, 2011
We pulled together all of the documentation for our Dossier (see Time to do the paperwork!) - Mar. 3, 2011
We completed the Home Study with our Agency (see The Office Interview and 5-6, Pick up Sticks) - Mar. 28, 2011
Preliminary immigration paperwork is sent to the US government Citizenship and Immigration Services. (see In the Mail) - Apr. 13, 2011
We traveled to Philadelphia to get our "Biometrics" (AKA - fingerprinting) done. - May 25, 2011
We have received USCIS Approval - June 13, 2011
Our psychological evaluation is completed. (see A New Step, All "Psych"-ed Out, Dossier On The Way) - June 14, 2011
Our Dossier needs to go to Harrisburg (see On To Harrisburg) then to New York (see New York, New York!, Back From New York) for review.
Our Dossier gets finalized and sent to the Honduran government for translation and approval. (See Paperwork Goes International) - Aug. 19, 2011
Our Dossier needs to be translated. (See Translated!) - Oct. 17, 2011
Our Dossier was reviewed by IHNFA (see Sooner Rather than Later?) - March 14, 2012
We had to complete more paperwork to have our Dossier approved (see More Paperwork, Off to Harrisburg, and New York, New York) - March 29, 2012
Our Dossier was approved by IHNFA. (see Happy & Heavy Heart) - June 1, 2012
We were assigned a "wait number" (see We Have a Number) - June 18, 2012
We received a "referral" to adopt two children from the Dirección de Niñez Adolescencia y Familia (DINAF). (see 5...4...3...YES!) - June 6, 2016
The next step is for us to travel to Honduras. We will be in Honduras for about 5 days to work through the finalization process for the adoption and with the US Consulate for our son and daughter's US citizenship. (see 1st Trip is on the Calendar)
We will make a second trip to Honduras for an undetermined length of time to pick up our son and daughter, finalize the process and bring them home. (see A Date to Sign!)

Yet to be done:

Once we return home, we will have a series of post-placement reports that need to be completed.

Viaje de Amor en Ingles

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Home Again

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