Finally!

Our long awaited 171-H arrived safely on Saturday. I finally got in touch with the woman at USCIS (ie: immigration) on Thursday. She admitted to taking three days off over the holiday, and leaving it on her desk.
Jeeeez, wouldnt you clear the mail off your desk before you go?

Oh, well- it arrived, so today I was off to the county clerks office so they could put their magic seal on all of the papers that are contained in our "dossier" then to the post office to overnight it to the secretary of state.
When it returns from them, I put it back in the mail to the Chinese consulate- then we are done! Our agency in Colorado then takes over, translates everything and gets it off to China.

We are in the homestrech, paperwork wise that is.
Then we wait again for China to issue us a travel approval- basically an invitation to travel to adopt our new daughter.
This can take anywhere from 30-120 days, with the average around 60 right now.

Pictured is all of our paperwork spread out on our table-
13 documents in all!