Our Timeline (In Progress)

July 2006

• Decided to start the adoption process
• Found a social worker and received initial home study package in the mail
• Attended "How To Adopt" seminar and it opened our eyes to international adoption

August 2006

• Decided to adopt from China
• Worked on completing initial application which included: individual statements and history, getting forms for police check and fingerprinting, answering questionnaires about considerations in adoption, and signed medical consent forms
• August 18 th - Fingerprint form sent to RCMP and Criminal Record Check handed-in.
• August 25 th – Received adoption package from Children’s Bridge and started gathering our information for the “paper chase”

September 2006

• September 14th - Received a passing grade on the Fingerprint, Interpol, and Criminal Record Check
• September 18th - Shipped package to social worker
• September 24th - Social worker called, first meeting set for Oct 5th

October 2006

• October 5th - We had our first home study interview
• October 10th - Decided on a girl's name - Kylee
• October 21st - 2nd home study visit

November 2006

• November 3rd - Paul's individual visit with social worker
• November 11th - Attended the Adoption Council of Ontario Resource Exchange
• November 18th - Attended an Adoption Panel put on by Children's Bridge
• November 23rd - Lisa's individual visit with the social worker

December 2006

• December 21st - Final home study visit

January 2007

• January 7th - Received our home study by email for editing
• January 8th - Found out China would be a minimum 2 year wait for a referral once our dossier arrived in China. We were devastated. However, we were told about Vietnam and we got thinking about switching to Vietnam.
• January 10th - Talked with our social worker to get her thoughts and contacted the Vietnam contact at Children's Bridge
• January 11th - Decided to adopt from Vietnam. Got all the forms and packages emailed to us and filled them out.
• January 17th - Meet with social worker to receive our completed home study.
• January 18th - Sent our dossier to Children's Bridge
• January 19th - Our dossier arrived at Children's Bridge and home study was sent off to the Ministry for approval (expecting a 8-12 week wait) and translation of our dossier began.
  

February 2007

• February 15th - Home study was approved from the Ministry
• February 26th - Dossier sent to Vietnam

March 2007

• March 1st - First TwinRx shot
• March 24th & 25th - Adopt Talk seminar
• March 27th - Children's Bridge tells us to start immigration paperwork immediately
• March 30th - Children's Bridge sends out it's first identified child referral this week

April 2007

• April 3rd - Second TwinRx Shot
• April 13th - Mailed completed Immigration Paperwork

May 2007

• May 1st - Received immigration kit