We came back from our 2 week Thanskgiving extravaganza to our US Govt provisional approval to adopt Emma. We have to wait now for the National Visa Center to send us a letter and then we can send those papers to China to the consulate, who will issue us and Article 5. Then the article 5 gets submitted to China and 3-4 weeks after that we get our Travel Approval. The Travel Approval is the final China approval! From there we set dates for a consulate appointment in China and once we have that, we set our travel plans! I'm amazed that we are this close! We need to even submit our visa applications soon! Woohoo. I'm still planning on early Feb.
So here are the steps:
1. Get approval from NVC
2. Apply for Article 5(from US consulate in China)
3. Get Travel Approval from China
4. Request a consulate appointment in China
5. arrange travel dates
6. Go get her!
We're excited! They are supposed to send us updates every 3 months, which means we'll get one in Dec. Can't wait for that!
And, for your viewing pleasure. Judson's latest musical adventure.
2 comments:
First off, hooray about Emma! Secondly, I laughed my head off with tears streaming down my cheeks watching that video of Judson. Oh my goodness...the arms! The hands! Did Mark teach him those moves? So hilarious. Made me miss you guys...cannot wait to see you in just a few short weeks!
yippee. but wait, no phone call?? ha. so excited. this seems to be going much faster than it did for us... so yay for you.
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