Just ONE left!

Today we received my Birth Certificate back from the State of NY and a notarized copy of our Home Study.  Our I-800A is on it's way to the USCIS office!!!  then just one Doc to go!

Things left to do!

• Hague training!  Turns out a conference we went to back in Nov 2007 where we earned 8hrs of training is still good!  So that saves us some time and money!  This is requirement with the new International Child Hague Laws.  No biggie.
• Finger prints.  The USCIS will be sending us appointments on when we'll need to do that.  These fingerprints are what generates our Federal Background check.  So yes, we are IN the system!  Mostly because we've done them a few times already for Robyn's Dossier the first time around.  We'll need to do it again.

Once the USCIS has deemed us ok to bring a foriegn orphan into these United State of America, we'll receive a I-800 stating our approval.

Once we have the I-800, I will then need to get the last three documents, notarized, county authenticated, and state authenticated. (I-800, David's Med form and the Home Study)

Next step is to get all 13 documents Authenticated at a Chinese Consulate.  IF I can mail documents to the Washington DC Embassy, I will send my NY doc there.  The rest of our documents are to go to the Houston Chinese Embassy.  It costs $25 per doc for the Chinese Authentication and we have to have them sent via Courier!  YIKES!!  The courier costs $150 to have 12 documents delivered and picked up.  gosh I wish the Chinese Consulate/Embassy here in Atlanta did that.  Seems that only certain ones do it.  

Moving right along!

ZaiJian
~Donna