Approval is a good thing.... a feel good thing and one step closer to our little boy.

Our papers are leaving USCIS today by UPS 2nd Day Air and will arrive at the National Visa Center (NVC) on Thursday.

We now wait 1 week from this Thursday (hopefully) for our files to be assigned their GUZ #

This is the number we are assigned when our files are all officially logged into the Guangzhou Consulate. With that GUZ number we can fill out the Department of State form 260 (DS260) and then the DS260 receipt will be mailed to our agency. That receipt and our I 800 are then emailed to an agency representative (Cordelia!) in Guangzhou who will take all our papers, officially now called "Article 5", to the Guangzhou Consulate for Article 5 "drop off". 

And then we wait for 1 week for "pick up". 

At Pick Up our files are express mailed to Beijing - CCCWA. 

And we wait  5 to 7 days for our Travel Approval (TA)....   

Once we have our TA 

we can request our Consulate Appointment (CA) dates and off we go! 

The question of the century is... 

can this happen before Chinese New Year (CNY)? 

That is the question.