Next to last step complete!!!
We received notice today that our agency's staff has picked up our Article 5 from the Consulate in China and they will then deliver it to the CCCWA (the governmental division of China that regulates adoptions). After that, we will probably receive travel approval around the second week of Sept I 'm thinking (permission to come get her). Normally, families travel 10-21 days after travel approval, but apparently, we may not be able to travel sooner than Oct due to holidays. We'll see once we get travel approval and our agency helps us work on details. But for now, we're one step closer and there's only 1 more hoop to jump through. After that, it's just buying plane tickets, booking hotels and hopping on a plane to China!!
Gosh, I can't remember how many days in between travel was. I do remember that when we received our referral on Dec 20th, 2011 we had her in our arms on Feb 19th, 2012 1 day shy of 2 months...but 2 months on the 20th was our adoption day.
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Wow! I had heard the travel used to be much quicker when they used the I600 documents. Now with the I800, the soonest you can usually travel is 3 months after referral or slightly less. Many people travel around 4 months after referral.
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