Hello darling, well another step closer to you...We recieved this notification on January the 16th from DoCS...
Dear Shane and Lisa,
We have received your home assessment report from your private social worker today, 16/1/06 . The report will now be referred to your caseworker for them to review and to make a recommendation to our Manager Casework, who will make a decision about approval.
Unfortunately we cannot give time frames from receipt of report to a decision about your application due to the dynamic nature of the workflows in this office. Therefore the time frames that we work towards achieving are from the date of lodgement of an application to an assessment decision of 9 -12 months for 1st time applicants and 6-9 months for 2nd and subsequent applicants.
You will be informed in writing once a decision has been made about approval.
kind regards,
DoCS
Now we wait to hear if we are officially approved to bring you home, and then we put together another big file of information, have it notarised, then we are allocated into a batch with other China adoptive parents, and wait until the batch is filled, then our information goes to China and we are what is known in the international adoption community as - DTC (Dossier to China)!
Then I can really shop for you!!
Mummy xx