One more step done!! We received our I-800 approval. This is an approval from US Immigration that is the first step in getting Ava's US entry Visa. Now we are waiting on the National Visa Center to do the final approval. At the same time, Holt is forwarding our Hague Documents to the US Consulate in China. Once the National Visa Center approves Ava for a Visa, they will also forward on the necessary documents to the US Consulate to China. We are being told that the average travel time is 10 weeks from now. That estimate is still on track for our January 25 or February 15th travel date...We are getting close!!!
In the meantime Matt, mom, and I are working on our entry Visas into China. We are working with Lotus Travel (recommended by Holt) to get our Visas done. This process has been somewhat complicated with lots of steps, but I was able to talk directly with someone last night from Lotus Travel and think we are back on track. We should be able to have our Visa applications in the mail in the next week. Luckily, it should only take 2 weeks to get our Visa approvals so we should have our Visas in plenty of time.
We are getting so excited!!! Our darling Ava, we are coming. Can't wait to meet you and hold you.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
~LOA~
We received our Letter Of Acceptance (LOA) on 10/31!!! I couldn't believe it when I got the call. I had just been in a meeting at work and people were asking if we knew anything new. I said something like unfortunately no, we were hoping to have our LOA by the end of October. So now that we haven't received it we probably won't be traveling until March. Well, guess what my friends...Holt says we will either travel on January 25th or February 15th (assuming all goes smoothly)!!!!! I cannot even explain how happy we are~we're far beyond excited and can't believe how close we're getting. We are coming baby girl!!
Since our LOA, we have done another round of paperwork. We immediately signed our LOA and got it back in the mail to Holt. The other paperwork we have been doing is for the I800, this is to start finalizing Ava's adoption. We are really working fast through this paperwork 1. because we can't wait to meet Ava!! 2. we are hoping to get past the US paperwork before the holidays which could slow down the process. The I800 went in the mail today. I refuse to be the holdup in getting to our baby girl faster :)
Since our LOA, we have done another round of paperwork. We immediately signed our LOA and got it back in the mail to Holt. The other paperwork we have been doing is for the I800, this is to start finalizing Ava's adoption. We are really working fast through this paperwork 1. because we can't wait to meet Ava!! 2. we are hoping to get past the US paperwork before the holidays which could slow down the process. The I800 went in the mail today. I refuse to be the holdup in getting to our baby girl faster :)
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