Here's one of those odd milestones. A paper we have never seen and will never see is being taken from one city we've never been to to another city we've never been to. Yeah, but we're thrilled!
Our Article 5 was issued by the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China. If I understand it right, that basically means the USC is telling the Chinese Government that Fiona's immigration paperwork is in order and she (and we) need to meet with the Consulate officials to finalize her immigrant visa. They are asking the Chinese Gov't (Beijing) to issue us a Travel Approval.
NOW... it takes a couple days for it to get from Guangzhou to Beijing in the hands of our careful CCAI representatives in China. Travel Approval then usually takes 2-4 weeks to be issued. THEN we all dance together (USC, CCAI, and the Dodges) to come up with a good USC appointment date, upon which our entire travel itinerary is based.
:) One step cloooooooseeeer...
In other news: We got our Passports back from the Chinese Consulate in Chicago with our Travel Visas inside! :) We are allowed to travel to China for up to 3 months at a time, multiple times over the next 12 months. Yeah, we're going to use that ONCE to go get Fiona and bring her home within one month. That's it. Can't afford more! (as nice as it would be to tour the whole of China...)
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