Monday, December 21, 2009

I800 Provisional Approval!

December 18th!  Hooray!

Another step down and four more to go!

Next: Our approval is sent to National Visa Center (NVC), who will upload our file and Cable our approval to the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou.  This usually takes 7-10 days.

Then: The U.S. Consulate will process our approvals, visa application for Sofie, sign their copy of our LSC and issue what is called the Article 5 letter.  This informs the CCAA all of our paperwork and approvals are in order.   A rep from our agency will pick this letter up and deliver it to the CCAA.  This is taking anywhere from 1-4 weeks right now.

After That: The CCAA issues our Travel Approval - this means we are invited to travel to China to adopt Sofie!  This can take 2-4 weeks.

Finally: Our agency will schedule our adoption appointments in Inner Mongolia and our Consulate Appointment (CA) in Guangzhou.  This is when we will present our adoption paperwork to finalize the I800 approval and Sofie's visa, and appear for a "oath taking" ceremony.  All of our travel dates will revolve around this CA.  It usually takes the agency a few days to get this CA scheduled and then were are allowed to book our flights.

2 comments:

  1. Yay, Melissa! You're getting so close! I'm so happy and I can't wait to follow along!

    Merry Christmas!
    Tammy

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  2. All I can say is that I am "REALLY" glad that you all understand (you have to) all of this. So much paper work and STUFF. But, going in the right direction.

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