Melissa sent updated paperwork to the USCIS office on May 27 and received our travel approval from China on June 9th….so at this point China had expedited their process and we were simply waiting on USCIS to update our paperwork.

We decided to get our Congressman’s office involved on 6/9 and after a lot of back and forth we discovered that USCIS had no record of our paperwork, despite the fact we had a Fed Ex tracking document with signature.

Jenny, from Verne Ehler’s office had been advocating on our behalf. She worked with the Special Liason to USCIS and they requested we send a new copy. So Melissa brought a copy to the office and it was Fed Ex’d with a note from Verne Ehlers to the Special Liason. Later that day, we received some good news. USCIS had found the original paperwork and our paperwork had been approved.

Lots of drama but we are thankful to have this behind us. Now we can move forward with setting the appointment with the US Consulate in China and back into our travel dates. We are tentatively set to leave for China on July 8th and expect to be united with Jade on the 12th.