So close, yet so far!

I talked to our coordinator today and she received the package I mailed to her over the weekend. This is called our DS230. She is going to mail this to the staff in Beijing on Thursday and it should be to them by Monday or Tuesday. Our papers can't be submitted until the NVC letter comes. Thankfully, when I get it, I can just scan and email it to our coordinator, who will then forward it on to the staff in Beijing. Isn't technology wonderful? It saves so much time! Assuming we get our NVC letter by NEXT Wed. (which we should...) then our papers will be presented to the Consulate on Thursday, August 19.

Exactly 2 weeks later, our Article 5 will be ready. Our signed Letter of Acceptance and our Article 5 will then be submitted to the CCAA. Within 3 weeks after that, we should have travel approval.... and we should be leaving on a plane 2 weeks after that. SOOOOO.... I know you all can do math, but we are guessing that we will be leaving about 7 weeks from August 19, which would put us in the first full week of October. I can't believe that it is so close... but I feel like it is still so far. I know these next few weeks are going to fly by.