Our Papers Head Back to China

See this grand building? This the US Consulate in Guangzhou China. This will be the last stop on our trip to China. We will go to this building to take an oath to be Danielle's parents. This will happen the day before they grant us permission to leave China with Danielle and start our new family in America. But before we make it inside this building, or are even allowed to go to China to get Danielle, the nice officers working in this building have to approve our US visa and immigration documents for Danielle. Now that both the US Immigration Dept and the National Visa Center have approved our immigration documents for Danielle, and our file has been emailed to this building in China, on Monday, a nice woman by the name of Ms. Xia will deliver our Visa Application for Danielle to the US Consulate office in Guangzhou - to this building. Then in 2 weeks, Ms. Xia will pick up the Visa approval documents and then send them to Beijing to the Chinese Adoption Authority. Then we wait about 2-3 more weeks for the Chinese Adoption officials to give us our final authorization to come to China and adopt Danielle, called the TA. When we are granted the TA, we can book our travel tickets and make our appointment at this building for our oath, etc.

The most exciting part for us is that now we are pretty sure that we will be leaving some time the first week in Oct and return about 15 days later with Danielle!!