Adventures of the Pfeiffer Family: Our big brown eyed boy...Luke at 8 years old

India Adoption Process

Arrive home as a family of FIVE on 5-25-10
Alesha is finally in our arms forever on 5-20-10
Our family leaves for India 5-12-10
Alesha's passport arrives at orphanage 5-10-10
Alesha's passport completed 5-7-10
Official ICPC Clearance 4-27-10
Verbal ICPC clearance 4-13-10
Rec'd Alesha's legals 4-5-10
Judge signed legals. We are now officially Alesha Mugdha's mommy and daddy 3-30-10
Guardianship 3-24-10
NOC 2-23-10
Article 5 Approved 1-6-10
I-800 Approval 12-10-09
Updated USCIS fingerprints completed 12-8-09
Filed for I-800 11-23-09
Mailed Acceptance Paperwork to Dillon 11-23-09
Received Referral Acceptance Paperwork 11-19-09
Accepted Alesha's Referral with Joyful Hearts 11-17-09
Mailed USCIS I-800A extension paperwork 11-10-09
#2 on waiting list 11-6-09
#3 on waiting list 5-8-09
#4 on waiting list 3-6-09
#5 on waiting list 2-19-09
I-800A approval 1-13-09
#6 on waiting list 10-24-08
#7 on waiting list 10-14-08
#8 on waiting list 10-9-08
#9 on waiting list 10-2-08
#10 on waiting list 9-10-08
USCIS Fingerprints completed on 8-29-08
We have moved up to #11 on waiting list 8-4-08
Adoption Agency emailed and said we are #13 on the waiting list for our little princess!!!!! Now the LONG wait begins 7-17-08
Dossier mailed to Adoption Agency on 7-11-08
Drove to Capitol building to have Dossier Documents Apostilled on 7-10-08
Filed I-800A 7-01-08
Home Study Completed 5-27-08
Home Study Begins 5-04-08
Application #2 approved 4-08-08
Application #2 sent 3-22-08
Adoption Workshop 3-16-08
Application #1 approved 2-06-08
Application #1 sent 1-03-08