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Old 01-24-2011, 12:22 PM
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Ethiopia or Bust :)
I am discouraged that most of the posts here under Ethiopia are about the agencies. We are trusting that we made a good choice and are FULL FORCE in our adoption journey!!!!! Our homstudy will be complete this coming Wednesday...then we just wait on the final report. While that is being prepared we have been submitting all required documents to the adoption agency and preparing our dossier. With our agancy as soon as the homestudy and 171-H (or some gov. form are complete we are placed in the "waiting parents file" and then we complete the dossier!!!!!!! We are so excited to have our children join our family!

Love to hear where everyone else is in the process!!
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Old 02-09-2011, 09:23 PM
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Hi, MamaLove! We are in the process of completing our paperwork to start our homestudy for adopting a sibling group from Ethiopia. Looking forward to hearing from others who are also in the process.
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Old 02-10-2011, 07:53 AM
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We have been home with our son since April of 2009
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We are here.
Our future son.
12/12/07 application mailed to homestudy agency
12/13/07 Contracts mailed to the adoption agency
April 16,2008 First home visit done
April 30th Second and final home study visit done
July 16,2008 Officially on the waitlist for a baby boy at #21
August 28,2008 Received FDL officially able to accept a referral.
Oct 7,2008 Officially #13 on the list
Nov 7,2008 Officially #8 on the list
Jan 6, 2009 Referral of a beautiful 6month old baby boy
Court date March 31st.
April 18,2009 Leaving for Ethiopia to bring Home Noah T.
April 20,2009 Noah Tamirat in our arms forever.
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Old 02-12-2011, 03:09 PM
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we have been home with our 2 girls since April 08. Used to live in NC but now live in Iowa, looking for support groups and some help to "readopt". Finally able to get their names changed, etc... can anyone point us in the right direction?
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Old 02-23-2011, 11:06 AM
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We have been home with our daughter since March, 2010. Can hardly believe we're celebrating 1 year next month.
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Old 04-11-2011, 05:09 PM
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We were homestudy ready Fed 14 2011...we are being fingerprinted for our I600-A application for immigration on April 21...AND ON APRIL 1 2011 WE WERE MATCHED!!!!! We were not even waiting yet and we have a child who will be our daughter! We will be calling her "Truth" and using her first name as a middle name. She is a beautiful energetic 9 year old living with HIV and a hearing impairment...we are sooooo excited!!!!!!!!! We are praying for a speedy trial...our agency obviously cannot give a timeframe though (fingers crosses) bc of her HIV status (level 3) we could poss. travel yet this summer!!!!!!! We are praying that Truth will be home in Gods perfect timing!!!!!
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Old 04-13-2011, 03:23 PM
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We are waiting for the childrens paperwork and then hopefully things will get back underway then it looks like we have quite a wait at the ministry.Ou dossier arrived in Ethiopia September of 2010 we received or referal in November of 2010.
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Old 04-15-2011, 05:45 PM
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FINALLY!!!!! The childrens monthly update came with new pictures and great news.they have the kids paperwork and we can move forward!
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Old 04-15-2011, 06:43 PM
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optical1...

THAT IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! I would love to keep hearing updates!! Do you know what your estimated travel times may be? and you said "kids" how old? how many?
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Old 04-16-2011, 05:47 PM
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we don't have travel dates we still have to get thru the ministry and that could take awhile. Just happy to have cleared one hurdle.We are adopting 2 children ,a little boy 7 and a little girl 5.
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Old 09-17-2011, 10:52 AM
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Hi ladies, I am new here. My husband and I are starting our adoption journey this January with an Ethiopian adoption. We are so excited!!!! I really want to be a part of a group and learn what I can along the way. Just wanted to introduce myself!
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Old 09-19-2011, 07:29 AM
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Happy to have you aboard!It's great to have the support of others who are going through the process.It's been a lesson in patience and endurance,but it will be worth it when we're finally able to bring our little ones home!
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Old 09-20-2011, 09:17 AM
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Thank you optical1! We told both sets of parents this week and all were thrilled! It sure does make it feel more real.
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Old 04-06-2012, 06:44 PM
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Ludmomma,

How is your process going? I am new here also, just at the very beginning stages of researching countries I can adopt from (I'm a single woman). Ethiopia seems to be a viable option, but just wondering how the process is going for you so far?

Best!
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Old 05-10-2012, 02:33 PM
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Renee-Albright, may I ask which agency you worked with to adopt your boy?

Thank you,

-Katerina
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