When do we travel?

I've gotten this question a lot and it's answered in a previous post, but to make things easier I'll post about it again. It involves a lot of adoption jargon so I'll try to explain it as clearly as I can!

We have to wait on getting a Travel Approval (TA) from China and an American Consulate Appointment (CA) in Guangzhou, China before we can make travel plans. The CA hinges on when we get our TA. It usually takes approximately 6 to 8 weeks to get a TA, but our agency wants to try to process things quickly and get our TA sooner. Last month TA's were issued in 4 weeks.

In our referral packet on Jenna we received a "Letter of Confirmation" or "Acceptance Letter" that we had to sign saying, "Yes, we want to adopt Jenna!" That letter is being sent back to China by our adoption agency tomorrow. Once the Chinese Center for Adoption Affairs (CCAA) receives that letter they will begin processing our paperwork and issue a TA. The TA is then mailed/couriered to our adoption agency. Once our adoption agency gets our TA they will call the American Consulate in Guangzhou, China (our final destination in China before we return to the states) to set up our CA to process our American paperwork (i.e. - medical checks and entrance Visa for Jenna).

Once we get a CA we begin to make travel plans. So, long story short, we hope that we will travel to China the 2nd week in September. The urgency (in addition to wanting to bring Jenna home) to get TA's quickly is because the Chinese National Holiday the first week of October and the trade fairs in Guangzhou the last 2 weeks of October will prevent our travel in the month of October. So if we don't get TA's quickly we will have to wait until November to travel. We DON'T want that to happen!! Please pray for quick TA's!!

I hope this answers the "when?" question for everyone. Love you all!