Huang Fu Jun

Our new daughter is Huang Fu Jun. She is 4 years old and lives in the Huangshi social welfare institute in Hubei, China. She was born on December 5th 2004, the year of the monkey. She is a healthy, waiting child.

This is what the remaining process looks like.

We have sent a letter of interest (LOI) to the CCAA. They will then send back to our agency a Pre-Approval letter (PA). Once we have the PA, we send our dossier which is still in the authentications process. When the CCAA recieves our dossier, they will give it an official log in date (LID), and we will then wait for a letter of approval (LOA) which means our adoption is officially approved by China.

At that point, we send our LOA to USCIS along with a new form I800, and they will then send paperwork (DS230) to the US Consulate in Guangzhou, telling them about our adoption. Our agency rep in Guangzhou will pick up a copy of that document, and take it to the CCAA along with other documents. From that paperwork the CCAA issues a travel approval letter (TA) which is sent to our agency.

When we have the TA, our agency makes an appointment with the US Consulate in Guangzhou to have our adoption paperwork finalized and our daughter declared a US citizen just before we leave China.

The timing of this appointment is very important, as it dictates all of our other official appointments. We cannot enter the US without the consulate approval of her travel Visa. We will need about a week, maybe five days, in her province to have her adoption finalized as far as China is concerned, and a passport issued for her to leave the country. Once we have her passport and her China paperwork is done, we have to take her to the approved clinic in Guangzhou for a quick check of her overall health, confirm she is the child we were expecting, and to have her immunizations done prior to entering the US. She will also need a picture taken for her Visa. That takes a day or so, and then the agency rep meets with the consulate to have all our paperwork looked over for correctness. The next day we bring our daughter with us to the consulate to swear that this is the child we were referred, and we promise to fulfill the obligations we signed off on in our paperwork, financial support etc.

Once all that is done, we are free to leave the country.

So, for right now, we wait for PA and finish the authentication of our dossier. We should be ready to send it to be logged in sometime the end of this month or beginning of next month.