How long again?

I can not even tell you how many times a week people ask what is going on with our adoption.

Usually they start out saying, "I know I just asked you..."

and ending with, "I just can't remember."

 

Adoption time lines are completely confusing and always changing!

Don't ever feel bad about asking a million  times where we are in the process.

My husband asks on a weekly basis because he is just too busy to keep up.

I am going to try and lay it all out for you guys on a regular basis.

 

Right now, I am pretty sure we are somewhere in our 30 day appeal period.

This is where a family member can step up and claim the children before the adoption becomes final.

When the 30 day appeal period is up, we will get what called CONA.

About a month after that, we will get our Act of Adoption and the kids will legally be ours!

We are guessing we will have our Act of Adoption sometime mid July.

 

Next, we file for the children's visas.

The applications will take 2-3 months on average to get approved.

Once it is approved and sent to Congo, our investigation period will start.

The investigation will take 4-6 months.

Then we will get a visa appointment.

Our visa should only take a few weeks to get issued.

Next Congo does an investigation that is rumored to take about 6 weeks.

Then we finally get an invite to Congo to pick up our kids.

 

This all looks a little depressing when written down on paper!

Remember that these are all man made times and do not reflect God's timeline.