Journey to Celia: Pictures of Celia - She is fitting right in!

Our Final Itinerary

8/6/09 ~ Flight out of Nashville 6:15 AM
8/7/09 ~ Land in Beijing 1:50 PM
8/8/09 ~ Sightseeing tour to the Great Wall, Forbidden City and Tian An Men Square
8/9/09 ~ Fly to Nanchang (Where Celia lives) at 8:05 AM
8/9/09 ~ We will meet Celia at our hotel at 4:00 PM
8/10/09 ~ Do relevant paperwork
8/11/09 ~ Shopping for Celia
8/12/09 ~ Sightseeing to XiangHu Park
8/13/09 ~ Sightseeing to Teng Wang Ge
8/14/09 ~ We will receive Celia's passport
8/15/09 ~ We will fly to Guangzhou
8/16/09 ~ Sightseeing tour to Chen family temple
8/17/09 ~ Sightseeing tour to Yuntai Park
8/18/09 ~ Go to get Celia's Visa photo and her medical examination
8/19/09 ~ Our guide will go to the American Consulate to hand in our documents
8/20/09 ~ We will go to the American Consulate for our interview and to get our visa's
8/21/09 ~ Fly out of Guangzhou and arrive in Shanghai at 11:50 AM
8/21/09 ~ Fly out of Shanghai at 3:45 PM
8/21/09 ~ Arrive in Nashville at 10:38 PM

Our Adoption Timeline

June 19, 2009 - Received our referral.
February 5, 2009 ~ We found out that the CCAA has our LID listed as March 16, 2006.
January 10, 2009 ~ Received our I-171H in the mail. All of our paperwork is up to date. We are now ready to receive our referral and go to China.
December 6, 2008 ~ We were refingerprinted.
November 19, 2008 ~ We got our notice to be refingerprinted at the USCIS office.
November 4, 2008 ~ We sent in our paperwork to renew our I-171H. This was our one time free extension.
February 6, 2007 ~ We are now pending referral! Now we start the REALLY LONG wait!!!
November 6, 2006 ~ Our dossier is now in the Review Room
May 15, 2006 ~ Received our Brown Envelope from China
May 4, 2006 ~ Our dossier is in the translation room at the CCAA
March 20, 2006 ~ We logged in at the CCAA today. This is a BIG day for us!
February 24, 2006 ~ GWCA sent our dossier to China
February 15, 2006 ~ Sent completed dossier to GWCA
February 6, 2006 ~ Sent dossier to the Chinese Embassy
January 26, 2006 ~ Fed-ex dossier to Secretary of State's office in Washington, D C to have it certified
January 25, 2006 ~ Had the I-171H notarized, certified and authenticated which completed all of the paperwork for the dossier
January 23, 2006 ~ Our I-171H form came in the mail (this was the last thing we needed to complete our dossier)
November 16, 2005 ~ We were fingerprinted by immigration and had all of our paperwork notarized, certified and authenticated by the Secretary of State
October 3, 2005 ~ Agency came to our house to finish our home-study
September 14, 2005 ~ Mailed immigration papers (I-600A)
September 7, 2005 ~ Applied for police background checks
August 30, 2005 ~ Filed for our passports
August 17, 2005 ~ Sent in adoption agreement
August 1, 2005 ~ Met at Miriam's Promise to begin our home-study
July 19, 2005 ~ We received an e-mail from GWCA stating that they received our application
July 13, 2005 ~ We mailed in our application to Great Wall China Adoption Agency