Our dossier, complete with all the apostille seals, ready as international documents
Here's a preview of the baby's room, a work in process.We needed to include a photo of the child's room in our dossier for Kazakhstan
We received our homestudy approval on May 28th--thank you ICA! It was sent off to USCIS for final approval, allowing us to bring an orphan back into the US. We were told it could take between 30-90 days, but probably closer to 30 since we had already been fingerprinted for the FBI clearance and had sent in our other required documents. Much to our surprise and happiness, it was approved the very SAME DAY they received it and we were notified the following day! This is definitely great news!
We then got all of our notarized documents--thank you Darryl!--authenicated. Michael visited the Circuit courts of Montgomery, Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties to get the bulk of the documents authenticated. We sent one off to Carroll county and one to DC. The authentication process certifies the notary is licensed and current in their respective county. Next, Michael took all the documents to Annapolis, to the Secretary of State's office to have them apostilled. Apostilling certifies them as international documents to be used overseas. Add 4 photos of the outside of our home, 4 of the inside and 2 of us and we are done with our dossier!
We sent off our entire dossier (international documents that will go to Kazakhstan) on Monday, June, 16th to Children at Heart and we thought we were done. Unfortunately, we were missing one document and we were able to get that completed quickly, have it authenticated in Montgomery county and Andrew and I took it to Annapolis on Friday for the apostille seal. Andrew and I were able to enjoy lunch at the city dock and walk around and look at all the boats in Annapolis. We FedEx'd it off to our agency in New York the same day--so now we are officially done with the dossier paperwork--(we think)!
We then got all of our notarized documents--thank you Darryl!--authenicated. Michael visited the Circuit courts of Montgomery, Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties to get the bulk of the documents authenticated. We sent one off to Carroll county and one to DC. The authentication process certifies the notary is licensed and current in their respective county. Next, Michael took all the documents to Annapolis, to the Secretary of State's office to have them apostilled. Apostilling certifies them as international documents to be used overseas. Add 4 photos of the outside of our home, 4 of the inside and 2 of us and we are done with our dossier!
We sent off our entire dossier (international documents that will go to Kazakhstan) on Monday, June, 16th to Children at Heart and we thought we were done. Unfortunately, we were missing one document and we were able to get that completed quickly, have it authenticated in Montgomery county and Andrew and I took it to Annapolis on Friday for the apostille seal. Andrew and I were able to enjoy lunch at the city dock and walk around and look at all the boats in Annapolis. We FedEx'd it off to our agency in New York the same day--so now we are officially done with the dossier paperwork--(we think)!
We kinda equate finishing up the mounds of paperwork as completing "Trimester" 1. I guess we start a new "trimester" now--the translation of the dossier to Russian, then sending it to the Consulate in New York City, next it goes to the Kazakhstan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Ministry of Education and back to Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "Trimester" 3 will be the best to come--our travel to Kazakhstan!
For now we wait........
For now we wait........
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