It's a Good Day!

Lots of good stuff happened today.  The biggest news, we received our I-800 approval from USCIS!  This means US Customs has officially approved us to bring this precious little one into our family.  If things continue to go this smoothly, there's a chance we could be hopping on a plane before the end of June!  If not June, we'll be heading to get her in July.




Also, our Passports arrived back via UPS today, with our China travel visas neatly inserted (see picture).  We're approved to travel to China until April 2013, but thankfully we'll be heading there MUCH sooner than that!


Recap of what's left (starting from our April 11 blog post):

• Receive LOA (CHECK!)
• Send I-800 application to USCIS (CHECK!)
• USCIS forwards our approval to the National Visa Center to petition for baby girl's visa (CHECK!)
• The NVC forwards the approved visa petition to the US Consulate in Guangzhou China
• The Consulate reviews the visa application (the DS-230), makes sure it meets the qualifications for an immigrant visa, and then signs off that everything is in order for the adoption to be completed.
• The approval is forwarded to the CCCWA, which issues our Travel Approval!

We're coming, baby girl!!!