May 17, 2005 - Re-Accreditation came through!!


June 7, 2005 - Application Approved

June 9, 2005 - Home Study Social Worker assigned and Home Study scheduled

June 30, 2005 - Home Study visit by Social Worker (more or less an update since we'd already adopted D through this agency)

July 19, 2005 - Home Study approved and Dossier Requirements received

August 12, 2005 - Fingerprinted in Dallas (NW Highway location) for I-171H approval

August 18, 2005 - Dossier completed, but Texas would enact a $100 cap on apostilles per adoption on September 1, so waiting till after the first of September to send (thank Goodness we did!)

August 20, 2005 - RECEIVED APPROVAL FOR I-171H! Eight days from fingerprints to mailbox!!

August 20, 2005 - Attended one full day Educational Seminar at the agency (since it was our second adoption, we only had to attend one day instead of the full two days)

September 6, 2005 - Sent entire Dossier packet to Austin for Apostilles

September 19, 2005 - Dossier hand delivered to agency.

** Let me add that we changed regions during this time. We originally thought we would not be able to go to the same region D came from, so had prepared our dossier for a different region, then in late October we learned we could register in D's region so we had to update a few things and then it was submitted.**

March 6, 2007 - One year anniversary of meeting V