D.T.C.!!

We are Dossier To Ch*na!  I almost fell off my chair Friday afternoon when the dossier department contacted me to let me know we made it through critical review in one day- meaning everything in our dossier is complete and no revisions to any documents were needed.  Usually this process takes several days, not one, but one of the dossier specialists kind of implied that when the first review was done and it was perfect, they pushed it through the other levels quickly, for no other apparent reason than they didn’t feel the need for it to sit around the office. Following critical review, our agency translates key pieces of the dossier to avoid any confusion (Ch*na translates the entire thing once it gets there) then the agency arranges it in a folder/binder and mounts your pictures, so that all dossiers from this agency look a certain way. 

I knew on Friday that even though we made it through critical review, it would probably be a few more days before we were DTC, with the translation and organization of the dossier.  (Typically the entire process, critical review and preparing the dossier for China takes 9-11 business days).   I was in complete shock when I received an e-mail at 6:00pm that same day that we were DTC on 6/15/12!!!  I am not sure if they got it all done because they already had a package going to Ch*na or what, but we are so excited!

Some time in the next 3 weeks we should hear that we have been logged in the system in Ch*na and we will get our LID, or Log In Date.  Then we wait for our referral!