Another Adoption Update

Slowly but surely we are getting paperwork submitted to complete our adoption. Last week we filed paperwork at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi to get pre-approval from the Department of Homeland Security to adopt a child internationally. Hopefully they have received the FBI Fingerprinting reports that we submitted two weeks ago. And hopefully they received our notarized Home Study that was to have arrived at their office on Friday of last week. If these are in our file, then it will be another 2-4 weeks before we hear anything from the Embassy.

In the meantime, our attorney in South Carolina is mailing our other documents to the different states where the docuements originated (Marriage Certificate - Illinois, Birth Certificates - Illinois and New York, and so on and so forth) and getting them Certified by the Secretary of State for that state. Then, once those documents are certified they have to be forwarded to the U.S. based Chinese Consulates to be Authenticated. Once all that is collected they will be another round of making sure that every last required document is in place and properly signed and sealed. THEN we will submit the whole package to the Chinese Authorities.

It is a complicated process. But so is conception, pregnancy, and delivery. It is just that THIS process takes place outside the womb for us this time.

Comments

[Crystal]

Hey guys,
There is a family here that is going thru their second adoption and they have coined the term, "beauracratic pregnancy." It takes about 18 months from the time they are approved until the time they get the child (here in Thailand). I thought it was cute and thought it would make you smile! We continue to pray for you.