Planning and Princesses

The "Princess For A Day" Event was a great success. After months of planning 200 foster girls and girls from the community were given the royale treatment. My responsibility was finding and scheduling the "Godmothers" and "Princes". This was the second year of the event and the first our girls were able to attend. A dear friend paid for the girls to go and they couldn't have loved it more!

And now that that planning is over I am ready to buy tickets to China. We have our LOA from China but after receiving that our I-800, part 2, needs to be processed by the U.S. Immigration. It has taken an extra month to get to that point because of the turnaround time of getting Meggie's fingerprints taken and processed and our addendum being accepted. We are now waiting for the I-800 provisional approval and then we submit our article 5 to China. After China accepts the article 5, travel is approved and our agency can make an American Consulate appointment. Can you believe it????

From LOA it usually takes two months to travel. We are arranging travel four months after LOA. You would think that would be acceptable. Our agency is not recommending we make arrangements until we have a Consulate date, but look at how many steps it takes to get there! And just think how much more the tickets could be. I'm stepping out in faith!