Or, if you're in the mood to organize a whole bunch of paperwork over the holiday, you can register yourself on one of the many bitcoin exchanges (there will probably be a local one for your country) and then deposit your bitcoins there. (coindesk.com)
We expected to wait 3 months from the time we knew he was ours, but the US changed some procedures for immigrant Visa's during that time, so we had to file a whole bunch of paperwork all over again, and basically start from square one. (theletteredcottage.net)