Well, it's Monday morning in China. Hopefully, all the CC*A folks are cranking out some Travel Approvals as I type. Or at least getting ready to crank out some TA's once they receive our #$% signed Letter of Intent, a document that we submitted to them back in, oh, say, April? The document requesting that we be approved to adopt our little guy? On Friday the Rumor Queen board began buzzing with news of a new requirement before TA's would be issued. The CC*A wanted Letters of Intent with original signatures before they would issue TA. The electronically submitted ones were not good enough. This would not normally be a big deal if our paperwork were somewhere earlier in the process, but for those of us with files sitting on someone's desk, waiting for THE VERY LAST APPROVAL WE NEED BEFORE WE COME TO CHINA, it was devastating to hear.
Shocked and horrified, I quickly called my agency contact who was amazed at how fast good news spreads among adoptive mothers on the internet. Desperate adoptive mothers who have been anxiously counting down the days till they get TA. (It's like a club.) Instead of the good news we had all hoped for on Friday, we got news that meant MORE WAITING. As soon as Marc hit the door Friday, I handed him the letter to sign and off to the post office I trotted.
Now, my agency says this will not really delay our TA too much and that we should get it soon, hopefully this week. I sure hope so, but I'm not holding my breath. I think I will be doing a lot of running this week for stress relief.
Or I could just eat chocolate instead...hmmm...
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