Happy "LID"iversary to US!

Today we celebrate our 2-year LIDiversary for China. There is some debate as to whether reaching the two year mark in waiting is actually a day to celebrate. After some consideration, I think it is definitely a day to celebrate! It brings to mind the emotions and excitement we felt when we began the process. Two years and 1 week ago today our dossier was sent to China (DTC). We had received our 171H only two days earlier and with the help of our agency’s courier managed to get it authenticated and submitted so that we did not miss the June 16 dossier submission date. I do not know if they still do things this way, but our agency used to only send dossiers every other week and since we were coming up on July 4, the next submittal date would have been in mid July. At the rate things are going in China, that would have added about 4 months to our wait! Plus, we would have missed being a part of the great June group on Rumor Queen. So we were DTC on June 16 and were then ecstatic to find out we were logged in 1 WEEK later. We had been told to expect our LID 30 to 60 days after DTC.

The best thing about this LIDiversary is that it is just a day to sit back and celebrate. We do not have to update anything this time since we had renewed our home study and background check in November when we began the Kazakhstan adoption.