It took the doctor’s office an extra day to get the last test results back, but we finally got the medicals all signed off. Today, we sent the last of the paperwork over to Lifeline Children’s Services so that they could finish preparing the Letter of Intent to send to China. It took a little while, but we finally got together all of the paperwork that they needed.
One nice thing about China is that they take the Letter of Intent digitally, so as soon as it’s ready the agency simply presses “send”. Several years ago, during our first Chinese adoption, we had to mail everything which simply added to the stress. We checked the tracking numbers online several times a day until we were sure that it was received. Now, if something goes wrong, they simply press “send” again. Nice.
According to what we have been told, in a few weeks we will have a pre-approval from China, which sets the clock ticking to finalize the adoption. There’s no time to waste – we’ll be working on the home study this Christmas and doing some more fund raising.
