We picked up our Chinese visas today! All of our passports are stamped and ready to go. So, now the big question: When are we going to China, and when does Hannah physically join our family? Well, we don't know yet. Right now, we are waiting for travel approval from China. This greatly desired piece of paper gives us permission to travel to China. Once our agency gets that, they will request a US consulate appointment for us. Then they will count backwards from the consulate appointment to give us enough total days in China to travel to Beijing for a couple of days, go to Chongqing, get Hannah, officially adopt her, get her passport, then go to Guangzhou where she gets a medical exam and we file for her US and German visas. Once we have done all that, and have visas in hand, we get to come home! It is hard to imagine that this entire trip takes only 12 days...wow! Let's just say that we need to prepare for a whirlwind!
We expect to receive this travel approval either by the end of this week, or next. Waiting is just so hard!
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