We are getting excited for travel to China but also anxious about all that has to be done first. After this very LONG, seemingly endless paperwork trail, we are only waiting on two more things. Our agency sent our final documents to the US Consulate in China last week. Two or three weeks after that, the Consulate should issue an Article V, which is a formal request to the CCAA (China Center of Adoption Affairs) asking them to issue our TA (Travel Approval). When you are adopting you have to learn what a lot of things stand for!
In a few weeks after that, the CCAA will send our travel approvals to our agency and we can finally book tickets to fly to China. The only travel dates that the agency does in March are March 1st and March 8th. After that, the next opportunity would not be until April 5th. Needless to say we are really hoping for March and based on where everything is right now, we should be good to go for March 8th departure. Actually we are taking an optional trip to Beijing before heading to Natalie's province, so we would most likely leave on the 7th. For something that once felt like it would never happen, I can't believe that this trip is probably only 7 weeks away. Crazy. I now have a "due date." I am feeling the pressure to be ready for her and since January is so unbelievably busy for me, I don't feel ready at all. I guess that is good because it helps me to be patient with the waiting.
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