What a relief to say that Lord Willing our documents will be leaving the USA for China on Friday, July 26th and are scheduled to arrive on Tuesday, July 30th! China will then look over our documents for their approval and then we will receive a Log-in Date to their system. Once officially approved, which takes 2-6 weeks usually, we will be available to be matched with all children who meets our special needs application requests. At that point, any day, any time we will find out who are daughter is!
The past two months have been an emotional roller coaster. It took extra long to receive our immigration approval and so it forced us to certify and authenticate documents in separate packages with unexpected deadlines. Some documents had to go back to Florida and then to Houston for Authentication while others went on to Chicago on two separate occasions to get proper stickers etc for China. I'm now quite familiar with Fed-ex and tracking numbers as well as 3 different ladies in Florida, Texas and Illinois who helped walk-in papers to appropriate offices in order to get things done before expiration. Documents are not allowed to become 6 months old.
Through all of this craziness, we know that God has a plan. He is paving the way with every slow down or speed up to place us directly in the path of our daughter. Will you join us in praying for her journey as well?
