LID

We just got an e-mail this morning that our Log In Date is 5/7/10. Our dossier is now logged in and ready to be processed in China. The LID came in 1 week, which is a week earlier than what I had thought. The process is speeding up in China. Our next step will be our final letter of approval (LOA). I had planned on that taking 50-60 days, but lately it's only been taking 35-45 days. So, we could get that mid-June and then our travel approval (TA) mid-July. We can pretty much travel anytime after TA. So, it's possible we can travel in August.

We turned in the boys' passport applications on Saturday at the post office. There was little excitement while we were there. About 5 police cars and the bomb squad pulled up while we were waiting in line. We were told that someone called in about a suspicious package being left ontop of the collection box outside. They told us we'd have to stay in the building for about an hour. That was fine with us because we figured the passport line was about an hour long. The package ended up being nothing and they were letting people out of the building right before we finished up with the passports.

After we get the passports back then we all need to get VISAs. It's still hard to believe this is all happening.