Dad04,
What a riduculous statement, we already live in South America!!!!! You just are a wee bit north of all the action!
Chicks,
Letters he is talking about are letters that usually have questionaires, yours is a little too young to get that yet, although yours may have gotten info letters. They begin coming when they reach their junior year. The actual official invite comes after the summer of senior year, unless maybe you have been invited unofficially, which we never took because we wanted to know where my son actually stood in the recruiting process and waited for the real deal.
The official visit is a real good sign because each D1 (not sure of other divisions) can only invite 25. So as you can see it is a process, one that has many steps, the final being the actual offer and acceptance.
Some of those letters look impressive in his scrap book, the only meaningful one is that which was signed in November.