We signed the contract, and showed them so far what we got notarized, to send of to me apostilled. Everything was fine except the cover letters I had to change. There might me an issue with our house STILL! Because we own a mobile home, we only get a title of vehicle, WFT! NOt a deed. So I have to get a letter from my mortgage Company, saying we have a loan with them on this title number, and we owe such and such, and are in good standing. We also got finger printed for our FBI clearences. AND I sent that off. I had to have our social worker add an addenement because they said Moscow wants something saying our chosen god parents, are financially stable, and in good health and what their ages and careers are. Other than that I will start sending out a set of stuff to be apostilled. Yeah, the agency say's that if we get it all done and finalized, and sent off to Russia by mid July, we could travel in September. Crazy right? I dont believe until it happens. But they sugguested that we stay with a host family the first trip. DH is alittle scared about that, but the told us that some of those apartments are far from where we need to be. I would do it if it saved us money. But for our final I would spend the money to be alone with our child. So Im getting ahead of my self now, so i'll stop.
In my recent email from the agency, The following documents need to be filled out using an exact form. All need to be notarized and sent to the state to be apostilled. The tricky thing is some forms we need 2- to go into the Russian referral. Some need a cover letter, like our medical report and the doctors medical license. The cover letter to is say that we swear the following documents are true copy's. And the cover letter is what we get notarized and apostilled. So I spent 5hours today making rough copy's of the following (filled out but not final)
- Residence Address Verification
- Certificate of Approval Assurance for Post Placement Services & Consulate Registration (2copys)
- Petition to conduct a Search for Children Available for Adoption
- Consulate Registration Covenant
- Post-Placement Covenant-Parents
- Prospective Adoptive Parents Registration Form
- Adoptive Parents Medical Evaluation Form (2-one for each of us)
- Power of Attorney -Vicktorovna in Moscow (2 copy's)
- Power of Attorney-Borisovich in Moscow (2 copy's)
- Power of Attorney-Georgievna in Moscow (2 copy's)
- Financial Statment
I have also filled out our I-600A that will be sent to USCIS (immigration) But I called our office here in SC. They told me they are currently working on applications from February. Thats a 4 month wait! But I'm hoping that we don't need it on our first trip. Only by our final trip. So thats it so far. Seems easy enough. But ya never know what else they are going to want. So out of all those documents I have to have a total of 3 sets of documents notarized and apostilled. Then 2 photo copy's for us. Luckily in our state, its free at the bank to get them notarized and the state only charges $2 bucks a document. SO not bad! I heard that some states charge up to $20 a document. YIKES!
Ok going to lay down, and try to finish up my book!
I got an email today from our Home study agent. She let me know that DSS, need her updated license and then they would approve us. So she sent them the info that they need of her, and we should receive a letter and certificate to adopt. YAY! Some good news in our wait. I still have 7 more chapters of Hague training home work :( I cant seem to get them done. Maybe because its titled home work! But im going to try and get a couple chapters done today. Then organize my Dossier documents, so I know what im doing.
David and I went on the boat yesterday. its was HOT!!! But some how I got so tired and so did David, So we came home about three hours later. Had a BBQ at my FIL's house. Came home and went to bed. Today we are just vegging out!
