NVC has received our request

The National Visa Center has received our case!!  BIG STEP!!!!  They will be sending it onto our assigned Consulate General in China.  As soon as this happens, we get the 'ok' to email our agency, Holt International. They double check all of our documents that we have sent them over the last 11 months to  ensure they follow the Consulate guidelines.  After they are sent and the Consulate approves the, the Consulate will ISSUE our Article 5!!!!  WOO HOO!!!! That is sent to Beijing.  (This normally takes 2 -3 week!!) We are hoping they do not have any questions on our paperwork or this could delay us.   After our Article 5 is sent we wait on our TRAVEL APPROVAL to be issued.  Holt will apply for our visa appointment and provide us with our travel dates as soon as our TA is received !  We will then TRAVEL TO CHINA!!!

Through all the ups and downs we have had along the way, God has been in control and it is very obvious. We could not do this alone!!  The Lord open the doors for us and lead us to the people we needing the most at the right times!!  In looking back, over these past 11 months,  It has been a fun and educational ride!!   Started off with working with the States of Texas, Missouri and Kansas to get all the birth certificates and marriage licenses.  Working and dealing with Immigration on fingerprints and background checks.  And yes, with my sweating hands, fingerprinting was not FUN!!  Making sure every piece of paper had exactly what it needed to have on it; nothing more or nothing less or it would be rejected. The many trips to the bank to get documents notarized and then back to banks to let them know they did not notarized correctly.  I am now an expert of notarizing documents!!  Not because I wanted to be, because I HAD to be!!   The many trips to Topeka, to have all the notarized documents... state certified.  The kids didn't mind the trips, we would go to the Topeka Zoo.  We should have bought a season pass since we went there three times in the month and a half.  Sending all documents to the US Embassy through a courier services.  Then finding out two of your documents have expired (They are only good for 6 months)  Our documents were 6 months and 2 days!!! The many emails and phone calls to Holt to make sure I know what I am suppose to be going next and making sure I am doing them right!!! Waiting for the phone calls from HOLT to come in as every step was one step closer to bring Riley HOME!!

I am filled with tears of joy that she is in our reach now or so I can feel it.  We do have several weeks to go but I never thought we would be at this point.  It seemed almost out of reach!!  I have a 3 inch binder full of documents, instructions, directions, things I should know FULL!!  I have a spiral full with every receipt for every dollar we have spent on document fillings, fingerprints, home-study fees, post placement fees, mailings, China's fees for Riley...and it is all worth it because soon SHE WILL NO LONGER BE AN ORPHAN!!!!

Thanks for praying for us!!    Thanks for donating for little Riley!!!   We are still in need of funds for our journey over there. Any amount will help!!  This picture below SAYS IT ALL!!!

                 "The first gave you a need for love, the second was there to give it."
I am there to give HER the love and support she needs!!  We are there,,,YOU are included!  Thanks Friends!!
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