Friday, November 7, 2008

I-600 approval......

FINALLY.... I received it....Yes!!!! I kept waiting and waiting and waiting... and nothing... so finally I emailed the US Embassy in Hanoi for 5 days in a row with no response.... then I called them in the middle of the night... which is daytime for them. They were very nice, but told me it had been emailed on October 2:(( but I never received it. They emailed it and I received it in 2 minutes flat. It is a shame that Jasmine has stayed 6 weeks longer in an orphanage than necessary because of an email. I received a Giving and Receiving ceremony date of November 17:))..... so, I am frantically making flight reservations and trying to make hotel reservations... without knowing which dates exactly that I will be in Hoi An, Danang, and finally Hanoi. I found a man who owns a travel agency who managed to get me a one month Visa in about one hour!!! I am not kidding. Then he FedEx'ed it to me overnight and I have it already. Of course, I was obligated to make the flight reservations with him, but it was well worth it. I am finding that many of the hotels with internet access are already booked up, and I cannot get ahold of my in country Vietnamese representative to give me the exact dates I will be in each city. So, if anyone tries to email me... and I don't get back with you, it is because I had to stay in a hotel without internet. I would also would not be able to write on this blog, which would be a bummer:( My regular email is drstolz@gmail.com if anyone needs to get ahold of me when I am gone.... barring the already mentioned obstacle. Oh yes..... I get to meet my new baby girl on my birthday!!:))