Click here for “JOURNEY TO JOY: Couple adopts a daughter from half a world away” from the Patriot Ledger (MA). Click here for “Newly adopted Chinese infant cozies up quickly to her new family” from the Wet Mountain Tribune (CO).
Read the travel journals of families traveling in China RIGHT NOW adopting their daughters by clicking here and here. Both websites are being updated daily.
Click here for “From China, with love” from the Elmira Star-Gazette (NY). Click here for “New home, new job and baby makes six” from the Quad City Times (IA). Click here for “West Linn woman finds way to help orphans in China” from The Oregonian.
Today, we got our medical clearance letters for our adoption application signed by the doctor and notarized. So we got one more task accomplished in our paper chase to complete our Chinese adoption application.
One adoption agency verifies that yesterday they received Chinese adoption referrals for up to the November 11, 2004 DTC date.
For those who don’t know about the Chinese adoption process, rather than send notices to applicants as they are matched with orphans, the Chinese government sends out referrals (notices of applicants being matched with orphans) in monthly batches. For instance, everyone who submitted an adoption application to the Chinese government between (roughly) mid-October to mid-November […]
Among those posted on the internet, the referral with the latest DTC date that I have seen is 11/10/2005.
This morning, people are posting on internet bulletin boards that they have received their Chinese adoption referrals (notice from the Chinese government via their adoption agencies of matches with babies) today.