Faith In Every Footstep: 12/30/09

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

One flight down, one to go (for today anyway)!

About Faith Hengsi

Yang Hengsi was found by local poeple at the gate of the orphanage of Hengyang City on July 13th 2007. She was estimated to be about 5 days old. She was diagnosed with hyperthermia and hospitalized. (In July, when she was found, the temperatures reach 105 degrees.) We believe she was left out in the heat for an extended period of time. Local police did a lot of searching but failed to find her birth parents, as nobody claimed her, she was sent to be raised in the orphanage at 24:00 hours being July 14th.

In China she had been diagnosed with hydrocephalus from a CT scan. This diagnosis was inaccurate; we know this because of the MRI she recently had here in the states. She does have a birth defect with her brain tissue called Agenesis of the Corpus collossum.

Adoption Timeline:

Mailed 1st application to agency: 02/09
Changed agencies: 04/24/09
Mailed 2nd application to adoption agency: 04/24/2009
Application accepted from agency: 04/27/2009
Mailed Homestudy paperwork : 04/30/2009
Emailed LOI : 05/01/2009
1st Homestudy: 05/11/09
2nd Homestudy: 05/11/09
PA: 05/13/09
3rd Homestudy: 05/28/09
4th Homestudy: 05/28/09
Homestudy mailed to agency 06/05/09
I-800A mailed to USCIS 06/08/2009
Fingerprinting done 07/13/09
I-797C received 07/22/09
DTC!!! wired 08/03/09
LID 08/12/09
LOA 09/30/09!!!!!!
I800 approved 10/23/09
NVC cabled paperwork to consulate 10/31/09
Article 5 11/17/09 (that was a hard wait!)
TA 12/07/2009
Travel Dates 12/30/09-01/15/10

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Waiting to leave for Beijing.

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