Everything's in China except us!

After calling NVC(National Visa Center) once yesterday and once today I contacted our agency liason and told him I got three different people(inc. a supervisor) who had no clue as to why we needed this slip of paper before our Article 5 would be issued. They said sure they'd send a notice to us that they sent all our visa information to the American Consulate in China, but why? So she did and he(our liason) had the same discussions when he called NVC, and agreed to get our Article 5 pushed through hopefully by the end of next week, without this infamous sheet of paper. After the Article 5 passes inspection our paperwork is issued to the China people and they issue travel approval

So God-willing we will be in China next month.