Another Vickerman's China Adoption Story: USCIS Approval!

The Beginning of this Journey...

The Lord began this journey towards our second adoption about 1 year ago. He put on our hearts to sponsor Kay - at Harmony Outreach and we did. When i first saw her, i fell in love with her and prayed for her to join our family. It wasn't until May 2008 that the Lord began to use her to open our hearts to adoption again. That was when we had John Bentley from Harmony Outreach (her foster program) staying with us and he told us that Kay was ready to be adopted internationally. We prayed about her and began the adoption process again. Unfortunately, it wasn't in God's plan for her to join our family but He did use her to open our hearts up to adoption again and we are excited to see where He takes us. We are Trusting in Him.

The Lord has brought Maylynn into our lives and hearts on Nov. 21st (that is when we received her referral). We are excited to see Him bring her home to us. Please pray for the rest of our journey. We can't wait to bring Maylynn home...

Monday, December 29, 2008

USCIS Approval!

We recieved an email this morning that we are approved through the Department of Homeland Security (aka. I 800-a approval through USCIS) to adopt from China! We should be getting the official notice in the mail by the end of this week.

Our next step is to get all of our notarized documents for our dossier certified in Olympia. After those come back, we send them to the US Consulate to get Authenticated. Then all of the documents/dossier gets translated and sent to China.