Monday, November 9, 2009
LOA Baby!!
Just wanted to let everyone know that we received our LOA or Letter of Approval from China last Wednesday and we are just on "cloud nine" and also freaking out a little bit at the reality that in the next two months we are going to be a family of seven! No, we really are so excited to bring Jax into our family and are looking forward to traveling to China again!
So, we quickly signed our LOA and sent it back to our agency to send back to China. The name of the game in international adoption is being quick because there is always another waiting phase. However, sometimes even being quick on paperwork doesn't guarantee a shorter waiting phase. If you've never had the opportunity to experience the agonizing wait as an expectant adoptive parent, I will liken it to the labor pains of birth--it is almost as painful!!
We quickly gathered the paperwork necessary for our I800 form for immigration, the next step in the process, and express mailed this to Texas on Friday with a requested delivery date of today and well guess what, like I have experienced before with USPS Express mail--they don't usually look at the request and so delivered our package on Saturday when the Immigration office isn't open--UGH!! So who knows now when Immigration will actually receive our package and get it processed. We are running into the Veteran's Day holiday as well so that will slow things down. There are a few steps after this and then we will finally receive our Travel Approval from China and be on our way!
We are hoping to be leaving for China in early to mid-January, if things went a little faster than average we could be leaving as soon as a few days after Christmas, but that is probably unlikely. I guess we should start our packing as that always takes awhile and not something I want to be doing at the last minute.
Thanks for sharing in our joy and excitement! Everyone is doing great here and the kids are getting ready to welcome their new brother into the family! We did get an update on Jax and a few new pictures of him, so I will post those next for you to see how he is doing--he looks great!
So, we quickly signed our LOA and sent it back to our agency to send back to China. The name of the game in international adoption is being quick because there is always another waiting phase. However, sometimes even being quick on paperwork doesn't guarantee a shorter waiting phase. If you've never had the opportunity to experience the agonizing wait as an expectant adoptive parent, I will liken it to the labor pains of birth--it is almost as painful!!
We quickly gathered the paperwork necessary for our I800 form for immigration, the next step in the process, and express mailed this to Texas on Friday with a requested delivery date of today and well guess what, like I have experienced before with USPS Express mail--they don't usually look at the request and so delivered our package on Saturday when the Immigration office isn't open--UGH!! So who knows now when Immigration will actually receive our package and get it processed. We are running into the Veteran's Day holiday as well so that will slow things down. There are a few steps after this and then we will finally receive our Travel Approval from China and be on our way!
We are hoping to be leaving for China in early to mid-January, if things went a little faster than average we could be leaving as soon as a few days after Christmas, but that is probably unlikely. I guess we should start our packing as that always takes awhile and not something I want to be doing at the last minute.
Thanks for sharing in our joy and excitement! Everyone is doing great here and the kids are getting ready to welcome their new brother into the family! We did get an update on Jax and a few new pictures of him, so I will post those next for you to see how he is doing--he looks great!
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