Adoption Timeline: Marvel


  • December 15, 2009: Sign with Dillon International
  • January 10, 2010: Receive Application Part II Packet 
      • (similar to Dossier)
  • April 12, 2010: Application Part II Packet submitted
    • April 28, 2010: Application Part II approved
      • May 24, 2010: 1st Home Study visit (at Dillon office)
        • June 1, 2010: 2nd Home Study Visit (at our home)
          • June 11, 2010: Received Dossier Packet
          • July 11, 2010: STILL waiting on our approved homestudy?!?!
          • August 4, 2010: Surprise in the mailbox! Our Approved Homestudy is here, FINALLY! 
          • August 5, 2010: Sent USCIS I-600A Application and corresponding documents via UPS!
          • August 6, 2010: UPS confirms delivery of package.
          • August 11, 2010: USCIS email confirmation and acceptance!
          • August 13, 2010: USCIS receipt letter and acceptance
          • August 16, 2010: USCIS fingerprinting appt came in the mail! Scheduled for August 31, 2010--praying for a rescheduled earlier date!!! 
          • August 17, 2010: Re-scheduled USCIS fingerprinting appt. for TODAY! Quick trip to The City and we were done! 
          • September 7, 2010: I-171H was in the mailbox!
          • September 8, 2010: Dossier submitted to Dillon Int'l...with a big-fat-check (3 actually)! 
          • October 1, 2010: Email from Dillon: Our Dossier is back! Officially on the waiting list today!!!
          • October 6, 2010: Dossier is on it's way to Ethiopia! 
          • February 1, 2011: 4 months waiting. No word yet. 
          • March 28, 2011: Increased our referral age-range to include up to 4 years old 
          • May 25, 2011: Received word of increased *estimated* wait-times. Now 6-10 months for over 3 years old.
          • June 1, 2011: 8 months waiting.
          • August 1, 2011: 10 months waiting.
          • August 8, 2011: We get THE CALL! A Beautiful Healthy Little Girl of about 3 years old! We are IN LOVE!!! Now the real waiting starts!
          • September 5, 2011: 1 month waiting. No court date call yet...
          • October 13, 2011: We have a COURT DATE! Nov. 22, 2011!!
          • November 7, 2011: RE-fingerprinting appt. with USCIS
          • November 10, 2011: Difficult News today. Prayers appreciated.
          • February 10, 2012: 3 months and still waiting. Again. Hard news for many of our waiting friends-- as wait times increase...again.
          • February 23, 2012: REFERRAL! An amazing, adorable 4 year old boy! We are in love!!!
          • March 28, 2012: We have a court date! Heading to Ethiopia next month!!
          • April 24, 2012: Court! We are now the proud parents of Marvel!!!
          • May 30, 2012: We have been submitted to Embassy!
          • June 14, 2012: We have CLEARED EMBASSY!!
          • July 2, 2012: Embassy interview and Thank You Party for Marvel! He physically joined our family today!!
          • July 7, 2012: We are home together!! A family of 3!
          • January 14, 2013: Re-Adoption/Re-Finalization completed!