Fingerprinting Today

This was a very interesting experience. We had an 8:00 apt. for the Hempstead location of Homeland Security/Immigration for our fingerprints to be taken. (This is so that we can get approval from the US government to adopt internationally. The form that we will receive in a few weeks after they clear our fingerprints, is the last document we need to get our dossier off to China. )

We were number 45 aqnd 46 today at 8:00 am. Everyone spoke a language other than English, and for those of you who know John, he was not a happy camper. Especially when I told him we probably have to go back in 12 months because the fingerprints actually expire.....Imagine that.....Your fingerprints expire.

I must say though that the gentleman that did my prints was extremely nice, and we had a nice chat regarding adoption. He even told me he and his wife adopted a baby from Jamaica 3 years ago, and he has older children.


Thanks goodness for heads up on this process from my dear friends, M and J.....

China's One child policy

How the One Child Policy came about: In the 1950s, Mao Tse-Tung urged his people to have lots of children to strengthen the country. The population growth from this edict led the government in the 1970s to be worried that China would be unable to feed her citizens. So, the Chinese government implemented the One Child Policy in 1979.The goal of this policy was to keep China’s population below 1.3 billion by the year 2000. Today, China is home to over 1.2 billion people. Couples who violate the One Child Policy are subject to fines (equal to three years’ salary!), community ostracism, and even jail time.


Baby boys are more valued in Chinese society than baby girls because boys carry on the ancestral name, inheritance laws pass property on to sons, and sons are responsible for taking care of aged parents. Because of this many couples will abandon baby girls. A heartbreakingly cruel choice, yes, and an event that happens all too often – hundreds of thousands of baby girls are abandoned every year in China.


The babies are abandoned in public places (such as busy streets, railway stations, and in front of public buildings) so they will be found quickly. The babies are abandoned as infants – usually when they are only a few days old. In addition to little girls, handicapped babies and sick babies (both boys and girls) are also abandoned because most parents in China don’t have the money to provide for their special needs. Once found, the abandoned babies are given a medical exam and then taken to orphanages."


-Excerpt summarized by Stephe Danette

This is a beautiful Poem, especially on Thanksgving..

Once there were two women who never knew each other.
One you do not remember, the other you call Mother.
One became your guiding star, the other became your sun.
The first gave you life, and the second taught you to live it.
The first gave you a need for love, and the second was there to giveit.
One gave you a nationality, the other gave you a name,
One gave you the seed of a talent, the other gave you an aim.
One gave you emotions, the other calmed your fears.
One saw your first sweet smile, the other dried your tears.
One gave you up --it was all that she could do.The other prayed for a child, and God led her straight to you.And now you ask me through your tears, the age old questions throughthe years,Heredity or Environment --which are you the product of?Neither my darling-neither; just two different kinds of love.
Author unknown~

TWO MORE STEPS

Today we received our fingerpringting appointments. We go on November 28th, then we wait again for the 171 form which is the approval to adopt internationally. We also received our Homestudy (notarized)......... This leads us to just two more steps. It looks like we may be aiming for a January Log in date.

Waiting for that good ole CIS fingerprinting appointment

It has been 2 days since my Homestudy was supposedly sent to immigration. I am hoping to get a hard copy in the next day or 2. Here is what I still have to do.
Send the original homestudy to Massachusets (did I spell that right?) to have their state county certify the document...... This has to be done because my agency is homebased in Ma. and they get the homestudy notarized there.....

Then once our fingerprinting is completed we then wait for Homeland Security (Immigration) (CIS) whatever you want to call it, to send us a document giving us the OK to adopt internationally. Once we have that form, we then take alllllll our documents to get certified by NY ( in Manhattan) and then the same set of documents go to the Chinese consulate (in Manhattan) to get certified. Then we take all these same documents and mail them off to our agency in Ma. They then send this packet called the dossier to CHina. Once it goes to China, then it gets a log in date (LID) which is where our count down to our daughter begins....

Whew !!!!! This sounds harder than it really is.