So our I800 was approved today!!!! Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh! SO excited!!!
I'm sure it sounds crazy, all the different 'approvals' - the hoops that you are required to jump through in intl adoption are crazy... but basically this approval was from the US Govt, classifying JJ as our son, stating that he will be given US citizenship when he enters the US... woo hoo!!!
This approval is being sent to the NVC (National Visa Center) here in the US who will write us a letter stating that they have forwarded our petition to the US Embassy in Guangzhou. Once we get our letter from the NVC it has to be taken to the US Embassy in Guangzhou (sound kinda redundant? b/c hasn't the embassy already been notified of our case by the NVC when they received it??? anyway... don't ask questions, just do as we're told) who will then issue another document, this one called the Article 5. The Article 5 basically means that all of our ducks are in a row, everything meets the requirements and we are set to finalize the adoption. Our Article 5 then has to be taken to the Chinese Govt body who will then issue our travel approval (yay!) but wait, we can't travel until our US consulate appointment has been scheduled in Guangzhou. Clear as mud? Yah, for me too... and I've been reading about this process for months now!
Right now it is taking an average of 6 weeks from I800 approval to travel approval, with travel being about 2 weeks after TA... All that to say that I could be going to get our son the first week of May!!!!
One step closer!!!
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