Today was an amazing day! After what seems like weeks, the CCAA finally released a TON of travel approvals and the adoption forum that I'm part of went crazy with announcements! It was so great to see so many people getting the final approval needed to go get their kiddoes! Our caseworker called around 2:30 to let us know they had received ours via DHL and you should have seen the party going on around here!!!
We still have to wait to hear when our appointment at the consulate in Guanzhou will be. The process works like this: once you receive your TA, you adoption agency faxes over your top 5 requested dates to the consulate's office. Because visas take three days to process, CA's are only given on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, so that families can be done by Friday at the latest and can fly home without having to stay in China over the weekend. If we get a CA on either Dec 6th, 7th, or 8th, then we'll be leaving next Wednesday for a Gotcha Day of 11/28!!!!!! If not, then we'll leave the following Wednesday.
HOW TOTALLY EXCITING IS THAT????!!!!!!
More details to come when I actually have some. Until then, please continue to keep us in your prayers - specifically that God will continue to prepare little Sophia's heart to come to us without being too scared. He is so good and I know He is able!
Till next time,
Karee
YEEEHAAAAAA!!! You'll be home before Christmas!!! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteWe are at the same point in our adoption process also I would be very interested to hear when you get your CA. We are still waiting on our TA which is not at 5 weeks and counting. Very frustrating at this point. Good luck and I will watch for your CA posting.
ReplyDeleteBest regards,
Tim