Well guess what? Do you remember the thing that was supposed to take 30-100 days? It took 12 days. Wow. That had caught us by surprise totally. What this means in the long and short of it is that we could potentially travel in November. It's doubtful it will happen that smoothly, as there are still a few other obstacles to clear first. One of the things that has taken longer than we anticipated was the renewing our our I-171H,, which is US immigration paperwork we need to bring our daughter home. The government has just added a new agency (there's a surprise) to handle adoption related immigration issues based at the National Benefits Center, whatever that is. This change in the system has seemed to slow down getting that document finished, which actually should have gotten here before the other things we've had come in. Still, the max wait on that document supposedly is 90 days, and we're still a few weeks away from it being that long.
Some of the excitement about this stage of the journey is that some of the secrecy of the file is lifted, and we are a bit more free to share information about our little girl, including pictures, etc. in the weeks ahead. We'll also be able to send her a care package. For some reason, Sharon has told me I am not allowed to send her a Transformer. I am still baffled why she would deny me this request ; ) , but life goes on.
And as most of you know, especially those who have adopted internationally before, we have quite a bit of dough to raise. We feel confident we have enough resources to "borrow" our way to China, but we're hoping to minimize that as much as possible through grants, gifts, and other creative ways. We are in the process of talking with Michelle Dancy about a fundraiser through her business, ThirtyOne Gifts. More on that Later.
Now off for a mad dash of document signing and mailing.
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