Micah
We have a new baby waiting for us! We have named him Micah. It means, "who is like the Lord." He was born January 9, 2010. If you notice that is a different date than I told some of you, it is. He was born last Saturday in Taiwan. He is healthy and weighing 7 pounds 9 ounces. We received our call on Thursday evening and were overnighted our paper work on Friday. We do have pictures and hopefully with have a video soon. I will not be able to post any pictures until the adoption is final. That will not be for about 6 months.
Here is the process:
After accepting a referral here are your next steps:
Family's dossier paperwork is submitted to the court (we have ten days to complete this and get it back to our agency.)
Judge can take 1-3 month to schedule a court date
On the court date, Deana will present the family's case
The judge will review the case information, he can take anywhere from 2-12 weeks (8-10 on average) to issue his decree
After the first decree there is a 10 day wait period to allow for the birth family to come back. This 10 day period is the last chance for a birth parent to come back and reclaim the child
At the end of the 10 business days the judge will issue his final decree. Once we have this final decree we can begin to plan the family's travel
If you would like to see a picture, please send me an email and I will give you a peak!