The TA is in the Mail

Or so they say. Someone from the agency spoke to someone at the CCAA who says that our TA was mailed from China today (like sometime in the past 12 hours). So, if this is true, we should actually have travel approval by the end of this week. Once we have travel approval, then we wait again – this time for a consulate appointment. You can’t schedule a consulate appointment without a TA, and you can’t go get your child without a consulate appointment. Of course, the consulate in also in China, which means that if we get our TA on Friday, it will already be the weekend there, so we’ll have to wait until Monday for them to even get our request. Once we have a consulate appointment, then we can actually start planning our trip (you know, like buying airline tickets). Ack! China adoption is so not for the faint of heart!