Approved!!!

1 year, 1 month, 2 weeks and 5 days for approval

Got the telephone call yesterday from ICAS.. We are approved Yippeeee....

Once step closer to being a family. Now we need to compile a list of documents, and have medicals, police checks and finger printing done and then write lots of cheques????
Once ICAS has the completed documents (dossiers),there needs to be a minimum of 5 couples with files ready to go to China. These are batched together (given a number) and sent to China, where they review them and if happy log them into their system.
I think we will be victorian batch 45.

Scary to look back and see that so far in Victoria they are only up to batch 45!
Batch 45 sent there files on the 30/11/05 !!! and were allocated their children on the 10/12/07 just shy of 2 years..

So we are still in for a wait, but will probably feel like it is all the more real once we are logged in, in China.

Home Study is OUT!!!

Darren got home last night to find that our Home Study report was in the mail , we were not expecting it until the 24th so a nice suprise to find it 3 days early.. This is the report that the social worker write about our lives, relationships and in her opinion our ability to parent an adopted child. Thankfully we have been provisionally approved pending our approval and sign off from the Big Kahona in at ICAS.
Yippeee one step further along the line