We have PA!

"What is that?" You may ask!

Two VERY IMPORTANT letters!

They stand for Pre-Approval.

What does that mean to us?

We can FINALLY spill the beans that we have requested to adopt twin boys!!!!

Yes TWINS, and yes BOYS! (but you probably already guessed that by the blue paint if you looked at my previous post)

We sent a LOI- Letter of intent to our agency which was then logged in to the CCAA in China. It was logged in on 1/20/09 the boys one year birthday.

The PA is China's response back that they recognize our desire to adopt these specific children, and that they will now work on getting our file together with the boys files so that we can be officially matched and reviewed.

Once they complete this process they will send back to us a LOA- Letter of Acceptance to let us know that we have been officially approved to adopt them. We have to sign, send back, and then wait for TA- Travel Approval. They give you approval to travel and then our agency will try to work out our Consulate Appointment or CA. Once we have that we can book our flight and go!!!

All in all we are expecting 3-5 months before we get to travel.

We are simultaneously waiting for our renewal paper with the USCIS, which gives us permission to bring adopted child/children back into the country. We were working on getting our paperwork together for renewing this when we received our referal. SO we hope the US gov't is fast about this renewal as we would hate to have the CCAA say "you are good to go " and then still be waiting for US approval.

So THAT is our exciting news! We had to wait until we had PA before we could announce it!

We are so EXCITED! And have so much to do! Cribs, carriages, clothes, high chairs, etc!

At least we have the room painted already!