2 Steps Closer

We were able to take 2 steps in the right direction this week. On Thursday the National Visa Center cabled Fu's visa information to the consulate in China. We received the letter from them on Friday. We emailed this piece of paperwork to our agency the minute it was in our inbox and it will go with the rest of our paperwork to the US Consulate in China.

What next?

In 2-3 weeks the consulate will issue our Article 5. The Article 5 is the consulate pre-approving Fu for an immigrant visa. After Article 5 is issued it will be brought to the CCAA (China Center of Adoption Affairs).

Once the CCAA received our Article 5, they will contact Fu's orphanage to make sure everything is in order and he is ready for adoption. Once the orphanage gets back to the CCAA, our TA (Travel Approval) will then be issued. That means that China is tell us we can travel to China to get our son. That is when we book flights and know the day that we will finally have him in our arms. I can't imagine what that day will feel like.

We are getting so close!

Pray with us that things continue to move smoothly. We are hoping to travel in January. February is when the Chinese New Year begins in China. Adoptions and travel is affected greatly and so we would love to be in China and home before February. We originally thought we would be traveling in late February or March when we looked at the average paperwork processing time. We are so thankful that we have been on the fast track through post referral paperwork instead. Now it doesn't always feel like the fast track but in the paperwork world things have moved really smooth. It is hard not to get our hopes up that that will continue. We know God timing is perfect. Pray that we continue to trust in his timing!