There are different steps and milestones that get us steps closer to Lou Wei. I'm planning to include a brief time line on the right side of our blog to show the steps and timeline. One of the big milestones in the process is receiving the I-800A approval which is also called your I-797. It's basically the approval notice from USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services)...Its simply the U.S. government stating that we have been "approved to adopt a child from People's Republic of China." Now that we have received this document, we will be going downtown to the state capital to have all of our other documents sealed with our state seal. From there we have our documents couriered to the Chinese Consulate in Chicago, IL., hopefully later this week to receive the final touches. Once that is completed and we receive those documents back (which could take a few days) we will send our final paperwork to our adoption agency (Madison Adoption Associates) and they will send our completed dossier (the compilation of required paperwork) to China, this is called DTC. Once our dossier goes to China we will be waiting for our LID (login date) and then from there, our LOA. After the LOA, the next step is the "Article 5" and then TA (travel approval). Once we receive our Travel approval, we will be able to travel to China to meet our little girl!!! So we are praying that these remaining steps will go smoothly. After we submit our dossier the rest of the process will be simply to continue to wait and pray for Lou Wei.
Psalm 27:14-
Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord
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