Okay, not immediately, but last night we received approval from China. Maddux is officially ours!!!!! Jen got the call from our adoption agency at 7:02PM last night. Only 34 days waiting for Letter of Approval (LOA)!
Our agency has to mail us the LOA form and we have to sign and send it back to them. After that happens they will submit paperwork to the USCIS office to get us official approval specifically for Maddux (verify his orphan status, etc.). They will then send this to another US gov't office where the information will be cabled to China. This process should take 4-6 weeks. Then China will issue an Article 5 and after that is taken to the Chinese authorities, they will issue a travel date for us. We also have to apply for visas for China. We are estimating we will travel sometime in mid to late February!
We also are going to find out if we can send a care package with some goodies and some pictures of us to Maddux.
Great timing! Sunday afternoon we stopped at Ikea and bought a dresser for Maddux's room and a comforter cover. 
He's beautiful! Congratulations!!!
ReplyDeleteWe are so excited for him to be joining our family!! LOVE LOVE LOVE the elephant comforter :)
ReplyDeleteSo cute! Congrats! We have a zhejiang cutie too!
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