Visas, Part 2, Travel Dates and PANIC!!!

The good news:

1. China approved our visas and Jacquie picked them up from the consulate in NYC this morning.
2. CHI confirmed our travel dates: November 29-December 14.

Now the bad news: our fingerprints, which were taken by the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) back in May 2006, expired in August, and we can't bring our daughter home without current fingerprints. (Silly me, I thought our fingerprints never changed. Apparently, I am mistaken.)

So we have to get re-fingerprinted. We've spent a lot of time on the phone with USCIS, with CHI, and with our Congressman's office, attempting to get the process expedited as much as possible. We're going back to the Newark office first thing Wednesday morning to get this done again. Here's hoping they process it pretty darn quick.