Our agency told us that it could be up to two weeks before the hard copy of the LOA actually arrived at the agency.
I prayed we would receive it by Christmas.
The phone call came from our agency this morning! Only FOUR DAYS later!!! Two days before Christmas! God is good!
All of our forms are filled out and ready to go…our I-800, our I-864W and our Visa applications! Just waiting on the LOA to come from Fedex tomorrow! Praying it comes early in the morning to allow us time to get it turned around and back in the mail tomorrow!
Our LOA is basically a fancy letter from China that Bryan and I will both sign and mail back saying that we accept MinLan…our Letter Of Acceptance. Once we have that piece of paper, we can send in our I-800 form which is where the US government says that MinLan is basically allowed to immigrate into this country and therefore we are able to adopt her. We hope to mail it tomorrow or Thursday at the latest. That will take a few weeks to get back. Then we are waiting on some other things so we can fill out the DS-260 for MinLan's visa. Then we do what is called an Article 5. Once this is done, China will issue our TA which is our Travel Approval and we can buy plane tickets and GO GO GO!!!! Our agency says we will most likely travel in March. The earlier in March the better!!!
Thanks to a sweet fellow adoptive Momma who is an awesome adoption "date cruncher", she calculates that we are most likely looking at a "Gotcha Day" of either March 10th or March 17th! Woohoooo!!!!
We are coming sweet girl!
Love,
Momma
