Officially waiting :)

Our dossier was sent to China on 4/3 and the remaining families in our travel group had theirs sent over 4/7. Our documents are all being translated now and will be logged into the system in China soon. It will likely be a month or so before we here when our official log in date (LID) is (and this is the date that determines when we will get our referral). Unfortunately referral times have increased dramatically since we started this process. When we started the paperwork in Oct and Nov, it was a 6 month wait and had been for a long time. Since then, it has increased to 11 months, and is expected to get longer before it gets shorter. So much for having her home for the holidays in 2006. Heck, now we'll be happy to get her in the spring 2007 and to not have to wait until summer 2007....
but it's out of our hands completely now....

Immigration form arrived today!

It's finally official! We receivd our I171H form today giving us permission to bring an orphan into the country! So tomorrow morning we will get the copy notarized as a certified copy, I will get it apostiled by the NH Sec of State office in the afternoon, and it will go to our courier in NYC via FedEx tomorrow afternoon. They will hand deliver it to the NYC Consulate on Wednesday and our agency should receive it back authenticated by Friday!
YAY!