Received our approval for our I 800

We received our approval for our I 800 on Thursday. I finally feel like we are really going to get this adoption done and Cora will be home with soon. It is such a game of hurry up and wait, the waiting is the worst part for me. Friday I went to have the last few documents notarized and drove to Lansing and had them apostled/ authenticated. IT seems that I need to check our notary more close because when I got to the Secretary of State Department of the Great Seal it seems that my notary did not date a document so they refused to authenticate it. I had to find Auntie Cheryl, who happens to work in Lansing, and have her find me a notary. She walked me personally to one. We only had about 20 minutes before they closed for lunch and I do not like the “crunch time” feeling. Everything worked out so I can send the documents for my dossier off to the Chinese Consulate. They need to have all of our original documents plus copies of each. I am so scared that something is going to happen during delivery (like they get lost) and I will have to start collecting documents again. We only have until December 9, 2012 to get all documents to China and I do not think there is any way to get that done. Everything has gone smooth so far so I know that my worry is not doing me any good, things always work out.

 

I hope to have the documents in the mail and on their way to the Chinese Consulate on Monday, three days to get there and checked in, ten days for them to return to us, and then we will be sending our Dossier to China! Everything is moving along at a good pace so I recalculated our “hope to travel date” to being the end of February instead of April (of cource I can always be wrong).  I will try to keep up with adjusting the date as we complete a new step towards bringing Cora home.