Luke's passport has arrived! This is a relief....but of course now we have to wait for his visa. In order to apply for the visa, we need to have an invitation letter from China stating that we have reason to come there to finalize an adoption. We already went through this when we applied for our visas, but since we're adding Luke now we need to do it again for him. The problem is that the people in China who will process this letter for us are already on vacation for the Chinese New Year. This holiday is really messing things up for us right now! Once they get back into the office and get us this letter, we will send the visa application to a courier in Washington who will take it to the Embassy and apply for the visa. This shouldn't take more than 2 weeks and as of now we are just under 4 weeks from departure (hopefully). It looks like we will be OK on this but of course it is one more thing to stress about until the visa actually arrives.
Natalie's package that I sent, with a blanket, stuffed animal and disposable cameras was delivered to her orphanage yesterday. Yay!
We are still awaiting our official travel approval which is also being held up due to the holiday. AS SOON as this arrives, Holt will apply for our appointments in China and request permission from Natalie's province for us to come and if all goes well we can finalize our trip dates. I am hoping for TA to come by the 20th because that should leave us 2 weeks to get the arrangements made and most likely we could pull it off. Any later than that and we are really pushing it to try to leave on March 6th. Please pray for that TA to come!!
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