Some of these are from Beijing, some from Pizza Buffet, and some since then.

The recent news is that we have Tristan’s passport now. I also got an email from the embassy telling me that Yivan’s application for Permanent Residence has been approved, meaning we’re confirmed to be coming to Canada this July.

There is one more step for Tristan, that is getting a visa in his passport from our local police station. That should be relatively painless, it’s never taken more than a week to get a visa sorted out here (they’re quite efficient in this police office once you actually get all the forms handed in).

We’ll buy our plane tickets once we get Yivan’s passport back, because I forgot to write down her passport number. It looks like we will be flying Shanghai to Vancouver because it ends up being quite a bit cheaper.