"It's just a waiting game at this point"
That's what our case worker said to us yesterday when we finished up our travel phone call with her. Encouraging, right? I feel like I've gotten pretty good at waiting, and I've told God so plenty lately, I think it's about time to GO!
Right now we are waiting on our Article 5 paperwork to be picked up from the consulate in China. Our pick-up date is scheduled for 2/26/15. The reason we are waiting a little longer for this step, which normally only takes 2 weeks, is that the Chinese government shuts down for one week for Chinese New Year, which is the 16th-20th. After we get our Art 5 pick-up, our travel approval (TA) will be issued anywhere from 1-3 weeks after that.
After we get our travel approval, we will work with our case worker to schedule two appointments: our gotcha day appointment and our Consulate appointment (CA). Once those are scheduled, THEN we can book tickets and we will finalize our itinerary! We will leave for China around 1-3 weeks after we receive our TA. Things will be moving fast after we get our TA, I'm really praying we receive it the first week of March.
So we're getting close, but not close enough for my liking. We got updated pictures of Kailin this week and oh man, she is so cute. I'm not going to go to all the trouble of putting hearts on her face and posting them on this blog, but if I see you in person, I will gladly show her off! She is totally adorable, and getting so big! She is still a tiny little peanut (about 18 month size), but she's grown up so much from when we first saw her picture almost 1 year ago.
That's what our case worker said to us yesterday when we finished up our travel phone call with her. Encouraging, right? I feel like I've gotten pretty good at waiting, and I've told God so plenty lately, I think it's about time to GO!
Right now we are waiting on our Article 5 paperwork to be picked up from the consulate in China. Our pick-up date is scheduled for 2/26/15. The reason we are waiting a little longer for this step, which normally only takes 2 weeks, is that the Chinese government shuts down for one week for Chinese New Year, which is the 16th-20th. After we get our Art 5 pick-up, our travel approval (TA) will be issued anywhere from 1-3 weeks after that.
After we get our travel approval, we will work with our case worker to schedule two appointments: our gotcha day appointment and our Consulate appointment (CA). Once those are scheduled, THEN we can book tickets and we will finalize our itinerary! We will leave for China around 1-3 weeks after we receive our TA. Things will be moving fast after we get our TA, I'm really praying we receive it the first week of March.
So we're getting close, but not close enough for my liking. We got updated pictures of Kailin this week and oh man, she is so cute. I'm not going to go to all the trouble of putting hearts on her face and posting them on this blog, but if I see you in person, I will gladly show her off! She is totally adorable, and getting so big! She is still a tiny little peanut (about 18 month size), but she's grown up so much from when we first saw her picture almost 1 year ago.
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