I800 Reaches Destination

Our I800 application reached its destination as anticipated, on 8/31/10 and signed for at 8:41 am!!!  We'll patiently wait another week, allowing 2 weeks and call the USCIS for a status. 

Here are the final steps toward bringing Miao home:

I800 Received by USCIS: 8/31
I800 Approval:
NVC Letter:
Article 5:
Travel Approval:
Forever Family Day/ie: Adoption Day:

We are getting close...only 4 more steps before travel and the 5th step, WE ARE THERE!!!  I'm looking to other families to learn the current wait time from LSC (Letter Seeking Confirmation) until receiving the TA.  A travel approval is required for travel to China and all the paperwork we are curretly completing and waiting are all required for the travel approval. 

Sterling's adoption was 2 months to the date, with the LSC arriving 9/11 and the TA arriving 11/11...we are praying Miao's TA comes equally as quick..or quicker. 

I will speak with the principal at my school about the upcoming plans to take FMLA.  It's feeling more real with each day!!  We've been waiting since the end of October, 2009, almost a year and the wait has seemed so long but now, we are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel!!

A couple of families we've been communicating with who also have older daughters at the GZ orphanage are now traveling to bring their girls home.  One family returned this past weekend and the other family, departs this upcoming Friday.  It's exciting to watch the unfolding of their adoption!!  We are thrilled for them and look for the day when it is "our turn"!!!