May 2, 2008
This is my last post for now on this page. Yes, we are finally traveling on Sunday to China. We are so excited to be finally able to meet our daughter Raya. If you would like to follow our trip click on the left to follow our travel. We are going to try to post things as we get a chance.
Meet Gang, Dong Zhu
She will be 1 year old on Mar. 28th.
She is in Guangdong Province.
April 11, 2008
We have all of our needed appointments and are now waiting
to travel on May 4th-17th. Gotcha day is May 7th, that is the day we will finally get to meet Raya.
April 1
We received our Traval Approval (TA) today!
Who would have guessed that it would happen on April fools day?
Tonight our agency (Harrah's) will request a (CA) Consolate Appointment for when we are in China. This is the last appointment for when we will be in China. Once we know this date we will leave for China 2 weeks before that appointment. It takes 2 weeks in China to complete the process and come home with Raya. It usually takes 48-72 hours to receive this appointment date so I am soo excited that we will have our dates of when we will be traveling by this weekend. Wow!!
What a journey!!
Mar. 7, 2007
Well we are still working on our paperwork. Our homestudy update is finally complete. Now our next step is to send it in to the Oklahoma office and go to Dallas for more fingerprints to update the rest of our USCIS papers. Hopefully they will speed up with referrals so that we will not need to update all the paperwork again. We did have to update paperwork when we were adopting Jaime also. When we went through the process the first time it took 14 months from the time we were LID. The timeline now is about 18 months. We are thinking we will have our referral around Aug. or Sept. 2007. When we started the process the wait was only 6 months from LID. It is amazing how life can change so quickly.
