As many of you know, our last month has been a paperwork nightmare. We were cabled on June 25th, and then on June 26th our world crashed when we were forwarded with an email from the consulate saying that there was a problem with our names. Our names in the Immigration approval forms did not match with the names in the Chinese approval forms, since the latter were as per our passports, and therefore contained our respective mother's maiden names.
Well, we basically had to go backwards two steps in the process, and found ourselves having to file yet another Supplement 3 application, along with an updated home study, in order to say that we were such and such. This was kind of superfluous, as our home study had always indicated our respective mother's maiden names. However, when you are in this type of situation, you learn to zip, zip, quite a bit, because after all someone else holds the string to LET us bring our daughter name.
So, exactly one month later, I received an email today from our agency indicating that last night a courier picked up our Article 5, which is basically the final approval given by the US to bring our Gabi home. The Article 5 was expressed to Beijing, and now we sit down and wait for the final two steps to be able to travel to China: Travel Approval and Consulate Appointment, better known in the adoption lingo as TA and CA, respectively.
Our agency has indicated that we should be able to travel on AUGUST 22nd, and now we sit and PRAY really hard for the last two steps to take very few days. I JUST WANT TO HOP ON A PLANE and complete our family.
No comments:
Post a Comment