Monday, November 29, 2010
If You Are Thinking Of Adopting from Poland, Email Me!
I will tell you which agency NOT to go to. If the name of the agency sounds warm and fuzzy, don't be fooled.
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We have created this blog to share our experiences with family and friends in our process to adopt a child .
Adoption Timeline
February 2010 - Decide on adoption
March 2010- Decide on Poland and sign agreement with Agency, start collecting documents and start Adoption Education Classes.
April 2010- Obtain FBI/DOJ live scan fingerprints.
Two meetings with Social Worker to start Home Studay
May 2010 - All NON CA documents sent out to be Apostilled and returned.
Homestudy being reviewed.
June 2010 - Not much happening
July 2010 - All clearances notarized and sent to us and Home Study approved, notarized and completed! Sending all CA documents out to be Apostilled. Sending out I-800 to CIS.
August 3, 2010 - Paperwork sent out to US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
August 16, 2010 - CA documents sent to Secretary of State in Sacramento to be Apostilled.
August 23rd, 2010 - Received back all but 2 CA documents from Secretary of State in CA and Apostilled.
September 7th, 2010 - Send final 2 documents to Secretary of State of CA to be Apostilled.
September 8th, 2010 - Both of us fingerprinted for the second time required by US. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
September 13, 2010 - I-797, Notice of Action paperwork from USCIS received - I-797 is the approval to adopt one child from Poland.
October 2010 - Fired our crappy agency, looking for a new one.
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