After being held up with weather delays, these are the long-awaited results of filing our USCIS I-800, Petition to Classify Convention Adoptee as an Immediate Relative. We have the written evidence of our provisional approvals for both girls. That is the news. The rest of this post is the "what happens next" for those who are interested in details.
- According to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services website --
- Purpose of Form :
- To determine the child's eligibility for classification as a Convention adoptee. The petition is filed by the U.S. Citizen prospective adoptive parent to finalize the immigration process of a child who habitually resides in a Convention country.
- Now what? Since the I-800 Provisional Approval has been issued, NBC has forwarded this information to the National Visa Center (NVC) who, in turn, will cable the approval information to the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou. Once they have entered the information into their computer system they will send us a letter.
In the meantime, our agency has sent several documents to their representative in Guangzhou.
When we receive our letter from the NVC, we will send a copy to our agency. The agency then forwards this document to the representative
in Guangzhou, who will print the letter and hand-carry it and the aforementioned supporting documents to the U.S.
Consulate.
The U.S.
Consulate will review our DS-230, I-800 provisional approval and
supporting documents. If everything is in order, they will sign the
second version of the Letter of Seeking Confirmation and
issue the Article 5 Letter.
The agency's representative will pick up our family’s
Article 5 from the U.S. Consulate around
ten business days (two weeks) from the day our documents are submitted and
express mail them to the CCCWA in Beijing. The CCCWA will issue the
Final Notice of Traveling to China for Adoption (Travel Notice)
around 2-5 weeks later!
Sure hope you get your two sweet daughters in April!! I can get excited thinking about how blessed those little girls are going to be to get to come and live in your family. Diana
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! You're getting so close! I noticed your ticker. We've been at this 8 months, too. :)
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