Documents in!

I called our agency the day they received the documents from IL and they said they are perfect!  Yay!!  Originally Crescent Moon had wanted them to be Authenticated at their embassy, but our agency's in-country contact checked with them to see if we could skip that step for the sake of time.  Surprisingly, they agreed!  So, the state-certified documents are in Crescent Moon being reviewed and our LOA should be on its way any time.  I think this is our first shortcut and I am hoping for a few more in the sake of time.  ;-)

While I was talking to my agent, I asked if we were close enough that she could guess a time frame.  She knows by now that I'm more than familiar with the unexpected and I won't call her screaming if we're a bit beyond what she guesses.  lol!  She thought that if everything goes as usual (going by the process thus far, that's unlikely, but here's to hoping!), we could get our travel papers as early as mid-March!  It's much later than I had expected when we originally started this process, but at this point I'm excited that it could be that "soon"!  I'm excited to visit in the Spring because I hear it's beautiful!!  (Then again, I would be excited to visit any time of the year because it's a new country and we're there for a wonderful reason!)  

-V