Filling out adoption paperwork must be similar to work, you can be 80% done for a really long time before you are actually done! Well this is sort of a depressing realization. My last post in January was that we only had 10% of the paperwork left. Right now (a mere 8 months later) about 90% of our paperwork is our agency and we are working on re-doing the rest.
Well we waited forever on our FBI fingerprints (had to re-do them becuase they lost Melissa's even though they were in the same envelope with Jerrod's). We probably had everything received and completed together sometime in July and then it took us a few weeks to get everything apostilled and mailed to our agency. After they received it there, we found out we had to re-do about 5 things due to some expiring and job change stuff...
We hope to have all that (except getting new FBI approval, which should take 5 - 8 weeks from today) sent to our agency with a week or two. So I guess that means onto Colombia in hopefully September. Next step is translation into spanish in Colombia, which takes about a month. So fingers crossed, we should be on the official waiting list by November.... Then we are thinking 6 - 9 months from then until we get a referral.
Seaking of spanish, I have been doing Rosetta stone. So far, so good. Yesterday I learned how to say Japan, Russia, Italy and Egypt in spanish. Not sure why that is considered useful for level 1 spanish, but you never know when you might need to say those countries I guess. Another fun fact, the number of times I have been fingerprinted so far, is 5 and we probably have at least one more for the USCIS (aka Dept. of Immigration & Citizenship) that will expire before we get a referral.
Friday, September 7, 2012
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