{"id":215,"date":"2007-12-04T14:40:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T18:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2013-12-02T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T02:32:10","slug":"so-when-do-you-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/215","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;So, when do you travel?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Now that we have our long-awaited referral for Lainey, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting this question A LOT. The quick answer is we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not sure. Earliest? Probably late January. Could be February. Could even go into March. A few more things have to happen before we can travel\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We sent in our LOI (letter of intent) on 11\/21. This basically tells China that we want to adopt Ling Qing Qin.<\/p>\n<p>We now wait for our PA (pre-approval) to arrive from China which is their acknowledgement of our desire to adopt Ling Qing Qin and they begin making plans to match our dossier to Lainey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>Next, China will send our agency a form called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Letter Seeking Confirmation from Adopter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or LOA. From what I can figure out, this is China saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153are you SURE you want to adopt Ling Qing Qin??\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The agency sends us the form, we sign and overnight it back to them and they overnight it to China.<\/p>\n<p>Once they receive the LOA, they will issue us our TA (travel approval) which is their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A-Ok\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to come get Lainey!<\/p>\n<p>Our agency then works to schedule our CA (consulate appointment at the consulate in Guangzhou) which will dictate exactly when our travel dates are.<\/p>\n<p>Whew. Have I lost you yet?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, in a nutshell\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll travel once we get our PA, LOA, TA, and CA! We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll keep you posted on exactly which \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A\u00e2\u20ac\u009d we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on.<\/p>\n<p>Oh\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and Lainey is 17 months old today :)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we have our long-awaited referral for Lainey, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting this question A LOT. The quick answer is we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not sure. Earliest? Probably late January. Could be February. Could even go into March. A few more things have to happen before we can travel\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 We sent in our LOI (letter of intent) on 11\/21. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}