We had to write up a "care plan" for how we plan to care for Gracie's mild constricted valve, sign an "acceptance of referral of waiting child", a parent info sheet, and our "letter of intent" to adopt Gracie. We drove all of this paperwork over to our agency today, April 9th, and hopefully they will get it in the mail to send to China tomorrow! She told us that realistically it will probably take a few months to receive from China what is called their "letter of acceptance" for our request to adopt Gracie. Then, about a month after that we will receive our "permission to travel" which means we can make our travel arrangements to go get her. So, most likely it will be mid-July to mid-August when we will be able to go get her. It's already excruciating to not be able to go and get her right now but we know they are doing their best. They have thousands of families they are working with and currently are said to be about 30,000 families behind in the healthy child waiting line which translates into about 2 years!!! So, we defintely can't complain about a few months.
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