We are so very close!

Hey, Everyone-
I thought I'd post a quick adoption update. We are so very close to receiving our "travel call"! The final step in the process on the U.S. side was approved on February 26th and, at that point, we were simply in a waiting mode for Korea to finalize what they needed to do in the process. Thanks to the internet (and several Korean adoption forums), I learned there are ways to keep tracking the paperwork trail and as of last week, there was just one last step that needed to be completed on the Korean side....Claire's visa interview. Of course, she's only 9 months old, so the "visa interview" is a technicality at this point, but that step still needed to be completed. I had been calling the National Visa Hotline daily to see if an interview had been scheduled and as of early last week, it had not, so I called our agency and asked them to check on it. They did and found out that they were going to schedule her interview for late last week. They told them to expect a travel call in 1-2 weeks (and that was last Wednesday).

So...the bottom line is, our phone could ring any day now from our agency telling us that Claire is ready to come home and we need to book our tickets and head to Seoul!!! It's pretty cool because I know of at least 7 families that are all at the same point and a few more that have just recently traveled to Korea to bring their children home. There is a really good chance that some of the families would be traveling at the same time and staying at the same place.

Stay tuned....we'll be sure to let you know when the travel call comes!!!