DTC today (Dossier to China)

God is awesome! Thank you for your prayers!!
It's amazing how quickly things happened once we received the I-171H. Within a matter of weeks we are now DTC! (Dossier on it's way to China). Now we wait for the official log-in date. That is the date we can use to count out 6 months (maybe 7). We did hit a couple snags last week. The consulate in China had dignitaries in for a groundbreaking ceremony. Apparently the are building a new embassy. So their express 24 hour turn-around service turned out to be 48 hours with no cost breaks. Then a glitch with Assistant Stork. They overnighted the paperwork to us and not FTIA for Friday delivery. The problem with that is FTIA sends dossiers every Friday. Our coordinator knows how long we've worked on this. She called on Friday and said if we could get it to her for Monday they would send it with another package the agency was sending. That was great since this Friday they are not sending dossiers due to a holiday in China the following week. The offices would be closed and they don't want packages just sitting outside a closed office.

FTIA confirmed our paperwork went to China today! YEA!! Thank you Kate for all your hard work! I believe the paperwork goes to our FTIA China office for translation and they hand deliver it to CCAA. Once CCAA gets it and logs it in, this is the date to go by.

“An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance; The red thread may stretch or tangle, but never break.” - Chinese legend

Well, our red thread has certainly stretched (took us over 9 months to complete paperwork - usually only 3-4 mnths). We have also had one tangle after another in those 9 months. But we can now say we are 'paper pregnant'!!!!! Woohoo!!!