*We had our orientation call with our agency where they review all of our contracts and official documents that we must sign and notarize to begin our dossier process.
*We applied to our homestudy agency. This is a separate agency because we are using All God's Children International as our adoption agency and they are located in Oregon. You must use a coordinating agency in your area since that social worker will be visiting with us. Our coordinating agency is Carolina Adoption Services in Greensboro. We sent in our application to them but received an email from them yesterday saying that it takes them 2-3 weeks to process applications. I checked with AGCI in Oregon and they said that seemed like a long time and advised us to give them a call and see if they are backed up or what's going on. If they are then we may need to find another coordinating agency here in the area so that we can get started. We cannot send in our AGCI contracts and documents until we have been signed on with our coordinating homestudy agency. So, I'm checking on that this afternoon.
* We were planning to go this afternoon to have everything notarized but I guess we'll wait and see.
* After we are set up with a homestudy agency then we can send everything in to AGCI and they can send us our dossier paperwork guide/packet. We will then begin gathering TONS of information in very particular careful order to be notarized, sent to DC, then sent to Oregon, then sent to Ethiopia. While we are doing all that our homestudy will be happening concurrently. This process usually takes 3-5 months.
*At the end of that process when it is time to send the dossier to AGCI we will then send in a second large chunk of money. The estimate is $6,000. That is why we aren't stopping with the fundraising! :) We still have some things coming up. Brian is going to guest blog one day about one particular fundraiser that involves any of your extra books/textbooks/cds that you don't want/need anymore. So, hold on to them and don't chuck them just yet!!
Alright, I think that's what we are up to in regards to the adoption.
Much love,
Thanks, Angela, for keeping us up-to-date! Looking forward to finding out what I can do with all of these old textbooks we have hanging around. They are YOURS - you only have to ask!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you got all them special words and processes figured out cos I don't! And I am glad money is just another thang to God cos it seems important to a lotta people, don't it? It'll all happen RIGHT when it's sposta and THAT'S what we gonna bank on, Girl! ;)
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