More Good News, But Uncertainty Remains

We called the US Embassy today and found out that Camille's Visa has officially been issued. Therefore, as far as the US government is concerned, Camille is "ready to travel". (She's has her visa and her passport!) So now, we are literally waiting the final step in this loooooooonngggg two year process. We simply need ICAB to email our adoption agency granting us permission to travel. How long that takes is anyone's guess. We've been in contact with many people who've adopted from the PI -- some got the "go ahead" just a couple days after the Visa Interview, some a week later, some even longer. So, in other words, it's a quite unpredictable when we'll get "the call." In fact, it's even more uncertain today because the laws of international adoption have recently changed. Our application is one of the first that have been processed under the new laws, so past adoption timelines aren't completely reliable references. Anyway, our frustrations mount because we simply don't know if we can travel on the 18th, as we'd like. So, it's been a good news, bad news sort of day. We're told that in the end, when Camille is in our arms, all this frustration will all be forgotten. [Sigh]