Pete just emailed off our Letter of Intent (LOI) and Parent Information sheet. That needed to be submitted by 9 pm today. The LOI basically says that we wish to adopt this particular little boy whose file we've had for a whole 24 hours. Once that is accepted, then his file is 'locked' so no one else can attempt to adopt him while we are being reviewed by China. Our agency has every reason to believe that we will be approved to adopt him. We still have to snail mail the originals as well. We also had to submit the LOI agreement and updated photos by 9 pm tomorrow but we just took care of that today at the same time. But the wait continues.
After all of that, there are still more steps, but we just have to wait for those. More waiting. One would think that I'd be an expert at this waiting stuff by now. But I'm not. Once our agency submits Letter of Intent (which will hopefully be tomorrow - their China office has to translate it), we wait for what is called the Pre - Approval (PA). This should come within 2-3 weeks. This is a statement from the CCAA that they reviewed our LOI and accept it, and agree to move our dossier (which is currently in the Review Room waiting to be reviewed) to the Waiting Child track on behalf of him.
The Waiting Child department will then do a review of our dossier. Once they give the final ok, they issue the Letter Seeking Confirmation (LSC). This is the “official” referral of him to us. That should come around February sometime. At this point is where it is set in stone that he is ours! It could take anywhere from 8-12 weeks to receive this document and then it is then another 4-8 weeks for travel (so, something to financially plan for!). If we need to slow the process at any point to get things in order, we do have the option to do so in some areas but that is currently NOT in our plan. We believe this is God's will for us and trust that he will get the remainder of the finances in order since this happened about 2 years sooner that we most recently thought it would be. It does give us a few months though to apply for a few grants. LOTS more prayers for that!
This all moved so quickly today thanks to my hubby. He really took the reins on this one and completed everything and emailed it over. I would have had to take the entire day off of school (as it was the girls only did about 2/3 of their work - the PLUS side to homeschooling : ) to get everything ready but he squeezed it in his work day somehow.
We do have pictures of him but we are not allowed to post them anywhere publicly until he is 'officially' ours. It is possible that someone else is doing the exact same thing as us right now for this darling little boy. We hope not but it is possible.
Oh - and a medical update! It appears that he only has Epi-retinal membrane (ERM)
Epi-retinal membrane (ERM) or macular pucker is a cellophane-like membrane that forms
over the macula. It is typically a slow-progressing problem that affects the central vision by causing blur and distortion. As it progresses, the traction of the membrane on the macula may cause swelling.
This condition only has to be monitored until it becomes an issue. At which point, he will likely need surgery to correct his vision. Currently, he has blurry vision. This is only in his left eye. His right eye is normal. We found this out AFTER we had decided this morning that we were proceeding regardless of what this last update would state. God's always seems to know more than us : )
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