What does this mean? Well legals are the paper work that starts the process to bring our daughter home. The first thing we received is the I-600. The I-600 is a 2 page form that is a Petition to Classify an Orphan as an Immediate Relative. Our I-600 has been turned into our agencies Portland branch office. They will be filing it for us with The United States Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) which is a branch of Home Land Security. The USCIS also handled our finger prints and background checks along with our I-600a (also known as the Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition).
Now we wait for our I-600 to be approved.
After our I-600 application is approved, USCIS will notify us of approval. After approval our file (which has been growing with every document we submit) will be sent to the National Visa Center (NVC). In April of 1994, the Department of State opened a permanent Immigrant Visa processing facility at the National Visa Center (NVC) in Portsmouth, NH. The NVC will log our I-600 In and Out and we will be assigned an SEO number (the SEO is the case number).
After the NVC logs us out they will send our file to the US embassy in Seoul, Korea. The US embassy in Seoul, Korea will send a packet of paperwork known as the P3 to our agency in Korea. This packet /P3 needs to be completed by our agency in Korea and then returned to the US embassy in Korea.
In Korea an application for our child's Emigration Permit (EP) will be submitted. The Korean ministry will review the EP application and approve it. Once our EP has been approved, our agency in Korea will file for our child's travel certificate this is similar to a passport.
After our agency in Korea has obtained both our child's Emigration Permit approval and our child's Travel Certificate, the agency will then schedule our child for a Visa Physical. Visa Physicals are done by a non-agency doctor at our agencies clinic or at a local hospital. The Visa Physicals are typically scheduled once a month.
After the Visa Physical our agency in Korea will return the P3 packet with all the necessary documentation to the US embassy. At this point the US embassy will set an embassy appointment and a visa interview will be scheduled.
Our daughter does not have to physically attend the embassy appointment or actually be interviewed for the visa interview. Once those two things are done we will receive the call that we have been waiting for since we started this process. The call that tells us our daughter is ready to leave Korea and come home. At this time our plan is for me to travel alone to South Korea, stay between 3 to 5 days and bring our daughter home. We will keep the blog up to date as we enter and complete each of the above stages.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
WE ARE
Yes you read that right. We are #1 on the wait list! Needless to say we are ExCiTed. So what does this mean? It means that the next little girl that is not adopted domestically in South Korea would be referred to us. As with most of this process the time frame as to when this could happen is unknown. It could take a few weeks or a few months. What we do know is that soon we will get to see the face of our daughter. Oh did I mention we are ExCiTed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, October 2, 2009
Why A Blog
Why a Blog, because WE ARE ADOPTING!
My hope is that this blog will record our amazing journey, keep family and friends up to date on our process, and answer questions.
I plan to make our blog public in hopes of “paying it forward”, if it were not for the families who have gone before and blogged about it. This adopting Momma may not be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Now on to what everyone wants to hear, The Adoption. We are adopting from South Korea. We are adopting a little girl. And we are all done with our paper work and we are now just waiting to be matched with our child.
Why adoption? Short answer, it is the absolute best way for us to add to our family. The long answer, after becoming parents we knew we wanted to add to our family. We had a PLAN as to how becoming parents for the second time was going to go. It was a good plan. We would have exactly 2.5 years between each child we had. We added to THE PLAN, that since we had one Winter Baby we would then have our next one be a Summer Baby. So we put THE PLAN into action (so to speak). Well as Life continues to Teach me no matter how much I would love to control MY universe there are just some things that do not go according to plan.
Being just a tad bit impatient, I decided we needed a NEW PLAN. Our new plan was adopting. To us adoption is such a WIN-WIN situation. Our family would grow with the love of another child. A child would have what I believe every child DESERVES a Family. And a Birthmother would have the peace knowing that her unselfish choice brought immeasurable love to others and hopefully peace to her.
We had the NEW PLAN all in place. Application - check. Agency - check. Country - Check. We were ready to go. But as I mentioned earlier, PLANS do not always go according to THE PLAN or THE NEW PLAN. We were expecting … This unexpected change of plans brought us our amazing wonderful L and he IS our summer baby.
Finally, THE PLAN came together and beautifully I might add.
Well since that PLAN came together so well and without a hitch, just like I planned it. We were on to a New Plan, which was the old NEW PLAN. We altered our plan just a bit.
New Agency – Check. New Country – Check. Application in the mail – Check. We were ready! So there you have it. Stay Tune.
My hope is that this blog will record our amazing journey, keep family and friends up to date on our process, and answer questions.
I plan to make our blog public in hopes of “paying it forward”, if it were not for the families who have gone before and blogged about it. This adopting Momma may not be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Now on to what everyone wants to hear, The Adoption. We are adopting from South Korea. We are adopting a little girl. And we are all done with our paper work and we are now just waiting to be matched with our child.
Why adoption? Short answer, it is the absolute best way for us to add to our family. The long answer, after becoming parents we knew we wanted to add to our family. We had a PLAN as to how becoming parents for the second time was going to go. It was a good plan. We would have exactly 2.5 years between each child we had. We added to THE PLAN, that since we had one Winter Baby we would then have our next one be a Summer Baby. So we put THE PLAN into action (so to speak). Well as Life continues to Teach me no matter how much I would love to control MY universe there are just some things that do not go according to plan.
Being just a tad bit impatient, I decided we needed a NEW PLAN. Our new plan was adopting. To us adoption is such a WIN-WIN situation. Our family would grow with the love of another child. A child would have what I believe every child DESERVES a Family. And a Birthmother would have the peace knowing that her unselfish choice brought immeasurable love to others and hopefully peace to her.
We had the NEW PLAN all in place. Application - check. Agency - check. Country - Check. We were ready to go. But as I mentioned earlier, PLANS do not always go according to THE PLAN or THE NEW PLAN. We were expecting … This unexpected change of plans brought us our amazing wonderful L and he IS our summer baby.
Finally, THE PLAN came together and beautifully I might add.
Well since that PLAN came together so well and without a hitch, just like I planned it. We were on to a New Plan, which was the old NEW PLAN. We altered our plan just a bit.
New Agency – Check. New Country – Check. Application in the mail – Check. We were ready! So there you have it. Stay Tune.
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