After all these months of waiting, we finally received the official letter from China, asking if we want Xiao-Ling Long to be our daughter.
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We of course said "heck yeah!" and sent it back to the agency Next Day Air. So we can now call her by her full name, put her photo on the blog, and so on.
So now what? CHI told us that we can expect to travel to China in December, so we're working with them to get our travel arrangements in order. It's going to be quite a trip - she's at CHI's foster care center in Beijing. We also have to go to her old orphanage on Hainan Island (off the south coast of the country, near Vietnam) to do all the adoption paperwork and the American consulate in Guangzhou to process her into the country as a new citizen.
There is, of course, a bump in the process. To our brief horror, we found that when INS took our fingerprints last year, they were good only for 15 months - and they expired in August. Fortunately, CHI told us this happens a lot and all we have to do is renew them by mail.
More to come!
(Click on the image to view it full-size.)
We of course said "heck yeah!" and sent it back to the agency Next Day Air. So we can now call her by her full name, put her photo on the blog, and so on.
So now what? CHI told us that we can expect to travel to China in December, so we're working with them to get our travel arrangements in order. It's going to be quite a trip - she's at CHI's foster care center in Beijing. We also have to go to her old orphanage on Hainan Island (off the south coast of the country, near Vietnam) to do all the adoption paperwork and the American consulate in Guangzhou to process her into the country as a new citizen.
There is, of course, a bump in the process. To our brief horror, we found that when INS took our fingerprints last year, they were good only for 15 months - and they expired in August. Fortunately, CHI told us this happens a lot and all we have to do is renew them by mail.
More to come!
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