LOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We got it!!! LOA or SC is Letter of Acceptance or Seeking Confirmation Letter. It was the next huge milestone in our journey and today - it arrived at our agency!!!
Today, I started seeing people post on different boards about getting their LOAs who had LIDs in February...well that of course caused me to be excited as I had been anxiously awaiting the CCAA to start processing LOAs for those logged in during the month of February. No posts from our agency board though, until around 6:20 pm and a message was sent that stating all those with February LIDs should be near a phone - good news was coming. My husband was on the phone as I was reading the e-mail. I told him to take the call, if it were to beep (caller ID). He told me it had already beeped and he didn't take it! What?!?! The announcements started rolling in...LID of 2/7....2/13.....2/25 (same as us)....2/27! Finally, around 7:10, we got a call from the agency. It was the agency trying to call us when he was on the phone! But, we got the call, were are getting the letter and Anna will soon be coming home!
The CCAA is closed all next week for a May holiday, so our agency will not send off the signed LOA until Wednesday. Hopefully it will be there first thing next Monday (May 7th) morning and our TA will be processed quickly! I am seeing 14 - 18 days on multiple boards. So that would put us around May 25th getting TA (this is purely speculation based on what I have seen others do). Then just trying to get a CA (consulate appointment) as soon as possible.
It is such an emotional thing...every step of this process. Every step we get closer to her, it sinks in a little deeper that she really will be coming home - soon! I know others have waited much longer than us, but any wait away from your child is a long wait. We are blessed to have made it this far. I know God's hands have orchestrated all this from the very beginning. Before her birth, my heart longed for her and it has only grown stronger as the months have past. I know that she is my daughter, I know that I love her as my own flesh and blood, I know that there is coming a day, very soon, that she will be placed in my arms and we will be united as a family. I can hardly wait - my heart is just overflowing with joy! It may sound extreme to some, but the love of a mother for her child is unexplainable - can you imagine His love for us?
I am so thankful for this journey and for what God has done for us. To some, it is just a process that we are involved and this is just the next systematic step set in place by a Chinese governmental agency. But to me, it is the fulfillment of a promise. God told me to step out and He would prepare a way. He has and He is. We have prayed for God to be with Anna, our dossier and for our paperwork to be processed quickly. He is answering our prayers.
Praising God for His faithfulness and sending love to my Anna.
Today, I started seeing people post on different boards about getting their LOAs who had LIDs in February...well that of course caused me to be excited as I had been anxiously awaiting the CCAA to start processing LOAs for those logged in during the month of February. No posts from our agency board though, until around 6:20 pm and a message was sent that stating all those with February LIDs should be near a phone - good news was coming. My husband was on the phone as I was reading the e-mail. I told him to take the call, if it were to beep (caller ID). He told me it had already beeped and he didn't take it! What?!?! The announcements started rolling in...LID of 2/7....2/13.....2/25 (same as us)....2/27! Finally, around 7:10, we got a call from the agency. It was the agency trying to call us when he was on the phone! But, we got the call, were are getting the letter and Anna will soon be coming home!
The CCAA is closed all next week for a May holiday, so our agency will not send off the signed LOA until Wednesday. Hopefully it will be there first thing next Monday (May 7th) morning and our TA will be processed quickly! I am seeing 14 - 18 days on multiple boards. So that would put us around May 25th getting TA (this is purely speculation based on what I have seen others do). Then just trying to get a CA (consulate appointment) as soon as possible.
It is such an emotional thing...every step of this process. Every step we get closer to her, it sinks in a little deeper that she really will be coming home - soon! I know others have waited much longer than us, but any wait away from your child is a long wait. We are blessed to have made it this far. I know God's hands have orchestrated all this from the very beginning. Before her birth, my heart longed for her and it has only grown stronger as the months have past. I know that she is my daughter, I know that I love her as my own flesh and blood, I know that there is coming a day, very soon, that she will be placed in my arms and we will be united as a family. I can hardly wait - my heart is just overflowing with joy! It may sound extreme to some, but the love of a mother for her child is unexplainable - can you imagine His love for us?
I am so thankful for this journey and for what God has done for us. To some, it is just a process that we are involved and this is just the next systematic step set in place by a Chinese governmental agency. But to me, it is the fulfillment of a promise. God told me to step out and He would prepare a way. He has and He is. We have prayed for God to be with Anna, our dossier and for our paperwork to be processed quickly. He is answering our prayers.
Praising God for His faithfulness and sending love to my Anna.
