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Our Timeline
8 months & 4 days total to bring Lil home!
7/17/10 - Mom & Lilya flew home!
7/12/10 - Lily's "Gotcha Day!"
6/17/10 - Court Date - Lilya Joy is our daughter!
6/15/10 - Returning to Kiev for court
6/5/10 - Returning home
6/4/10 - Court is scheduled for 6/17
5/19/10 - We met Lily!!
5/17/10 - SDA Appt
5/13/10 - We're leaving on a jet plane!
4/26/10 - Received Travel Dates! We leave in less than 3 weeks!
4/15/10 - Dossier Submitted!
3/24/10 - Dossier mailed!
3/19/10 - I171H approval! Hooray! Our dossier is complete!
3/12/10 - Biometric fingerprinting appt!
2/2/10 - Our USCIS paperwork is in our state
1/14/10 - USCIS paperwork (immigration) is in the mail!
12/31/09 - Homestudy written up! It looks wonderful! What a fantastic way to end the year!
12/21/09 - Completed home visits! Sent 18 documents to state capital for Apostille.
12/18/09 - State back-ground clearance finished!
12/10/09 - Fingerprinted for state background check
12/09/09 - Background checks completed - home study can move forward!
12/06/09 - Completed our 18 hours of state required adoption courses
11/21/09 - Our first adoption class - the home study begins!
11/13/09 - We are officially committed to bringing Lily home!
PRECIOUS!
ReplyDeleteOhhhhh! I think my heart just melted!
ReplyDeleteOMG she's soooo cute!!!
ReplyDeleteShe is absolutely adorable.
ReplyDeleteShe is so sweet! We were really into Signing Time for a few years with our twins. One of them would carry the DVD boxes around and chew on them.
ReplyDeleteLily is a real sweetheart.