$ Home Study - Tons of paperwork
$ Choose an Adoption Agency - More paperwork
Education Requirements - Reading and paperwork Choose Children to be Adopted - We chose 3!
$ Gather Documents for Dossier - Mountain of paperwork
$ Passports for Everyone
$ Submit I-600A - Apply for Homeland Security Approval$ Get Fingerprints Taken
First Home Study put on on Hold
$ Second Home Study - new agency - Redo Paperwork
Get an Approved Home Study - Praise the Lord!
$ Apply for Adoption Grants
$ Get State Seals from Sec of State
Copy of Dossier hand carried to Ethiopia by our Director!
Steps to be completed:
$ Submit Dossier to be Authenticated in Washington DC
$ Original Dossier Sent to Ethiopia
$ Receive Grant money
$ First half of In-Country Fees - This is a HUGE Mountain!
$ Second half In-Country Fees - Same
$ Receive an I-171H Approval from Homeland Security
Receive a Court Date
Pass Court - Kids legally ours thru Power of Attorney!
$ Submit I-600 to Adopt 3 kids
$ Submit DS-230 App. for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration
$ Submit I-864 Immigration Affidavit of Support
Receive an Embassy Date
$ Make Travel Arrangements - another financial mountain
Travel to Ethiopia
$ Food and Lodging
PICK UP OUR KIDS!
Show up for Embassy Appointment
$ Pick up Visas for kids
Travel Home at last!
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