Timeline

04/14/04 - Orientation with HOPE for Children

04/19/04 - Application to HOPE for Children

05/24/04 to 6/18/04 - Home study interviews

06/22/04 - Home inspection/final home study

08/23/04 - Approval as adoptive parents by HFC

09/21/04 - Approval to adopt by USCIS

11/08/04 - Dossier to China (DTC)

11/22/04 - Log in date (LID)

  The waiting began......................

      And the waiting continued..........

            And the waiting continued......

06/27/05 - Referral received

07/18/05 - Travel Authorization (TA) received

08/12/05 - Travel from Atlanta to China

08/14/05 - Arrive in Guiyang,China; Gotcha day

08/15/05 - Adoption registration and notary interview

08/16/05 - Sightseeing and shopping in Guiyang City

08/17/05 - Hannah's 2nd birthday! Go to Liu Zhi County to visit the orphanage and try to locate abandonment spots

08/18/05 - Sightseeing and shopping in Guiyang City

08/19/05 - Get children's passports and flying to Guangzhou

08/20/05 - Children's physical exams, USCIS paperwork completion

08/21/05 - Sightseeing in Guangzhou

08/22/05 - Consulate appointment, then shopping at the Pearl and Jade markets

08/23/05 - Take oath at Consulate, get children's visas that afternoon. Night sightseeing around the Pearl River

08/24/05 - Leave China for home

08/25/05 - Arrive home