Mr. Elliott

That was my immigration officer's name - thank you for your approval today!! We received our I800 approval today, this is the US immigration dept saying that they will allow Danielle US citizenship when she comes to the US with us. Our immigration file will now be sent to the National Visa Center in New Hampshire, who will then notify by cable to US Consulate in Guangzhou China that we are approved. Once the US Consulate in China receives the approval and our file, via email, we can have our courier in China walk Danielle's Visa application (which we already prepared and sent to China with the Visa fee) into the US Consulate's office. Once the US Consulate in China gets both sides of these immigration documents, it issues an approval called Article 5 (all part of the Hague adoption file). When the Article 5 document is picked up in China by our courier she will take it to the Chinese international adoption authority who will then issue us approval to come to China and pick up Danielle. This is called the TA - Travel Approval. OK, wake up, you need to follow all this, it gets more exciting here ...... Once we get the TA, we can buy our airline tickets and set up our appointments in China both in Danielle's province and at the US Consulate's office in Guangzhou. We are hoping to receive our TA by the third week in September and be on a plane soon after!