Yesterday, we received official word that our Article 5 had been approved and that our paperwork is going to the CCCWA to get our Travel Approval! This usually takes anywhere from 1 to 3 weeks. Please pray for us to receive a REALLY quick Travel approval. This would allow us to make our goal of leaving on May 16.
After travel approval, we apply for 5 potential dates (in ranking order) in China to meet for our Visa for Izzie to go back into the US. This is also known as the Consulate Appointment. These appointments (I've been told) fill up, so the quicker the travel approval the better chance of us leaving when we want to leave. Once we have our official Consulate appointment, then we find out our leave date, gotcha date, etc.
This whole time I'm being telling Bob that we will be home around our 10 year anniversary. This is also VERY important because my Mom had already taken the week of June 15th off and has plans to travel via car with Dad to meet their granddaughter.
For this to happen, we need BEST case scenario:
***Consulate Appointment for May 27
This would have us leaving on May 16th, meeting our daughter on May 19th, and returning home with her on or near May 29 (our 10 year anniversary).
We are also waiting not so patiently for our final update on our little girl. We put a request in 4 weeks ago and REALLY hope to have new info next week!
I have converters! This just occurred to me... (I'm kinda slow! ;)
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