Great Wall China Adoption

The adoption agency we picked is called Great Wall China Adoption. They are located in Austin, Texas. We did so much research on agencies and Great Wall was just the perfect fit for us. They return my calls and emails right away and always can answer my nervious questions! Here is their website: www.gwcadopt.org.

The Wait Continues.....

Well, it has been 25 days since we were fingerprinted at the CIS...still waiting for the 171H. I really hope it comes soon. We want to be DTC (dossier to China) by the end of the year! Our agency, Great Wall, has sent our New Jersey papers to Trenton for Certification. We decided that once we get the 171H we are going to pay a little extra to get expedited certification. Anything that will help get our paperwork to China faster!

Still Waiting

It is now December. It is a rainy, miserable day here in New Jersey and we are still waiting for our 171H. I read something on line the other day that said someone got fingerprinted on October 19 in Philadelphia and is still waiting for their 171H from Newark!!!! I hope this doesn't happen to us. We are so anxious for our paperwork to get to China! I spoke with Great Wall yesterday and our dossier person is going to send all of our documents (with the exception of the 171H) off to Trenton for certification and then to New York for authentication. Once we get the 171H, we are going to get expedited service. We are still hopeful to be DTC by the end of December!

Fingerprinting Finally Finished!

We went to get fingerprinted again today. This makes the second time. We were fingerprinted for the homestudy and now this time for the I600A form. Now we wait for the 171H form from the government. This will give us permission to adopt a foreign child! Hopefully they will move fast!

A Baby Is Waiting For Us In China 

Great News!

The CIS logged in our I600A on November 4th and we received our fingerprinting appointments yesterday! I can only hope that the 171H form comes just as fast!

The Beginning of Our Journey

Well, this is our first entry. I thought I would give you our story to date and then start with the individual entries!

We are Cathy & Guy and will live in South Jersey. We have been married since 1993. We always knew we wanted children, but life got in the way. First job loss and no money, then busy lives. Before we knew it we were 40 years old. We started with fertility treatments in 2001, but they were not successful. We did one IVF cycle, but that too was unsuccessful.

In July of 2004, we started to talk about adoption. We decided not to pursue a domestic adoption because it was very expensive and most are open adoptions. We then started to talk about adopting from China. We did some investigation and chose Great Wall China Adoption for our agency. They are fantastic. We submitted our application on August 7th and were approved the next week...and the paperchase began!

Our home study was started on September 14 and we received our completed home study document on Friday, October 29th! Our case worker was very good and fast!

We filed our I600A form with CIS on Saturday, October 30. We are currently waiting for our fingerprinting appointment.