We received word last week that the US Consulate did indeed receive our paperwork via DHL for Jude's visa. It had been cabled to them as well, but they do not begin the visa process with cabled documents, so we had to wait for the physical copies to arrive. Our orphanage director was planning to go to the Consulate and officially enter the application for Jude's visa either Friday of last week or this past Monday. The Consulate will schedule an orphan investigation in which they request to see Jude's birth mother briefly. This should happen next week, and then they have one or two weeks' worth of work to do and then the orphanage can give us travel dates. We're thinking that at this point, we could hear from them around August 11. We shall see...
