We'll answer this in two parts: the timeline and the finances.
Timeline
The process of adoption is appropriately known as "the paper pregnancy." The following steps outline milestones we have already completed in the process:
1. Application to an adoption agency
2. Application to USCIS
3. Gathering and notarizing legal documents from "all corners of the globe" for the Dossier
4. Home Study paperwork (compiling documents, references, essays, etc)
5. Home Visit by U.S. certified social worker
The following list outlines steps we anticipate but have not yet completed:
6. U.S. certified social worker completes Home Study report
7. Adoption Agency reviews and recommends our Home Study report
8. Adoption Agency then sends compiled Dossier to MOWA and USCIS
9. We wait...we wait...
10. Adoption Agency contacts us with a referral of a baby from an orphanage in Ethiopia
11. We accept the referral
12. Appointments are scheduled with the Ethiopian Court and the US Embassy in Ethiopia
13. We travel to Ethiopia to gain guardianship of our son
14. We travel to the U.S. to gain U.S. citizenship for our son, and to get him a U.S. passport
Finances
We are in the process right now of applying to several adoption grants and are praying for God's continued provision through this process. Praise the Lord for the way He has provided for the expenses so far!
Some of you have already expressed that the Lord has burdened you to play a financial role in uniting our family. We are profoundly humbled by your generosity and God's beautiful plan of using His family to care for orphans. An organization, dedicated to the plight of the orphan, International CARE Inc, has committed to come alongside of us by administering a charitable giving account, exclusively for our adoption expenses, from which 100% of your tax deductible donations can be applied toward the adoption without increasing our taxable income.
If you are interested in being a part of the adoption in this way, checks should be written and mailed to International CARE, Inc., with a separate note indicating it is for our adoption expenses:
PO Box 1603
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