Our journey begins

I wanted to create a blog so that our family and close friends could follow our adoption journey while we were in Vietnam. We're hoping to be in Vietnam, holding our daughter, by the end of 2008.

Our paperwork update: All of our paperwork has been submitted, as of yesterday, to our adoption agency, Orphans Overseas. We are waiting for our home study to be sent to USCIS (US Citizenship & Immigration Services). As soon as that happens we'll wait for our I-600A approval (petition to adopt an orphan). Once approved, our information will need to be authenticated, first locally then by the secretary of state and lastly by the US Consulate in San Francisco. Once authentication is complete our dossier will be sent to Vietnam where it will be translated and sent to the DIA (Department of International Adoptions). Once this happens we'll be given a number on our agencies waiting list and the real waiting begins!