San Antonio Mailer is out the door

The document gathering process is a long a tedious one. It's a long train of certification in which starting one task depends upon finishing another.

Our Mailer #1 is already in to Great Wall. Mailer #2 is being prepared as we speak. In between those two is a separate mailer to the Department of Homeland Security branch office in San Antonio. We just mailed it in last night.

The San Antonio Mailer requires a number of documents (birth & marriage certs, for example) from Mailer #2, plus a final copy of our home study. After weeks of waiting, we finally got it.

Now we wait. After 30-90 days, we will likely be approved by DHS to continue. The approval itself is a requirement for Mailer #2 to Great Wall (it's always a train), which will be ready to be mailed by the time we are approved. Also, at some point before DHS approval we will have to travel to San Antonio for fingerprinting.

Long story short, the document gathering process is nearing an end. Woohoo! One more Mailer to go, and then the "Long March" to Malia can begin. :)