Passport! (and an update...)

Allison's passport finally came today! We can officially say we are done with packet II once we send a copy of the signature pages to New Life Adoption Agency. That'll be on Thursday!

Allison and I met with Vicki at New Life Tuesday morning. We had sent a lot of emails back and forth and talked on the phone, but never met face to face. She is really nice and answered all of the questions we had regarding packet III. We both felt pretty good when we left, and a little bit more excited! It looks like we will still be able to get our dossier off to China around the mid-June to July timeframe. That is of course dependant on how quickly the US government turns around the forms we have to submit to them, but if they turn them around in the "typical" time, then this is when we can expect it to go out.

After we got back in town on Tuesday from New Life, we visited the doctor's office to set up our medical exams needed for our dossier. We are scheduled to have them done next Tuesday, the 27th.

We have first drafts of our financial statement as well as our letter of Application to China complete. Both should be finalized in tha next day or so. We will also have our online course completed tonight- all 20 chapters! My employment verification letter is underway at the Air Brake and should I have that back by the end of the week.

So far, so good! The only setbacks we have had so far are the adoption fees increased by 10% (ouch!) and our Birth Certificates needed to be sent out to Albany twice due to an error at the County Clerk's Office. Nothing we can't deal with, because we know it will all be well worth it in the end!

We'll keep you posted!

~G&A