More delays...

I received some news last night from our agency that has really defeated me.  I thought we were more than a week into our Article 5 wait with a possible pickup as early as this Friday.  However, our agency rep told me that he sent our paperwork to the Chinese government in error instead of to our in china rep for drop off to the US Embassy in China.  So, our paperwork has been missing for nearly two weeks.  They have been trying to locate it since last Wednesday, but I just heard about it yesterday (Monday) and I am not very happy about that.  I was advised that as of yesterday our paperwork has been located and will be sent to our in China rep.  When?  Who knows.  They feel that it will be received Friday and that drop off will happen the following Tuesday as they are closed on Mondays.  Ugh.  That puts us more than two weeks behind.  The frustrating part is that I have busted by arse getting through this paperwork quickly and timely.  We finished our homestudy quickly.  We had our dossier completed, notarized and authenticated quickly.  The only real wait we had to endure was an extra long wait for our immigration approval, which is with the US government, not us and not China.  That process probably added at least 30 days to our wait.  But we moved on.  Our LOA was received after 70 days, not too bad considering we had a long holiday mixed in and that others were waiting longer.  This part of the process is supposed to move like clockwork…drop off Article 5 and pick it up exactly 14 days later, then we would be in line for travel approval.  We were getting so close I could taste it.  We had dates picked out when we wanted to leave.  And now we don’t even know when our Article 5 will be dropped off.  We don’t even know where it is at this point.  There really isn’t much more to say.  I will update when our paperwork has been delivered to the correct place.