Got the last dossier doc!

Thank you to all those who have been praying!  We got our I800A Approval in the mail yesterday!!  This was the last piece we need to submit our dossier.  So I'll take it to work in the morning to get it notarized, then Gabriel will drive it into Chicago to get it certified by the Secretary of State and drop it off at the Chinese Consulate to get it authenticated.  That's a minimum 2-day process, so I'll plan to go in on Wednesday to pick it up and send it by overnight mail to our placing agency in Colorado.  Then they can finalize our dossier and send it to China.  It's now looking like we'll be able to get it over there by early October, before any of our documents expire :-)

Once we get confirmation that our dossier has been "logged in" by the Chinese Government agency in charge of adoptions, we'll need to wait 2-3 months while they review it.  Then once we get their official "Letter of Acceptance", we can file the next form with US immigration (I800) and once we get that back we can go get our son!  Hoping for late winter/early spring.  We haven't gotten any updates from our little guy, so hoping he's doing ok and looking forward to meeting him!