Some Measurable Progress!

After seemingly endless delays waiting for various pieces of paperwork to converge at our mailbox, the I800A Immigration paperwork is not only mailed off, but was received by the Chicago office yesterday only 18 hours after mailing it! :-) We're praying for a quick acknowledgement, and will then be able to request expedition so we can get the precious permission piece of paper that needs to be part of the Dossier ASAP. And the Dossier needs to go to China and be translated and accepted before we can get permission to travel.

We will be starting the Dossier paperwork on its tedious pre-China path tomorrow. Most of the papers that make up the Dossier need to be notarized, then shipped to our State office for certification (that the notaries are valid), then we get them back, then they go to Washington, DC for certification by the US Dept of State, then we get them back. Then they go to the Chinese Embassey in Washington, DC for some other stamp of approval. Whew! Then when the vital piece of paper from Immigration arrives here... we'll try to express that through the entire certification process. THEN we can send all to our adoption agency for checking over and sending off to China. What a process!

Progress will now be measurable by mail deliveries at this stage. ;-D THANKS to all who are keeping this whole process in prayer!!