We are working diligently on our dossier at the moment:
-We have our lab draws scheduled tomorrow so we can get both of our doctor's forms completed and ready for the adoption agency approval before it is sent off for apostille.
-We are waiting to get updated copies of our homestudy, since James has a new job now and when we do the employment verification portion of the dossier it needs to match the homestudy.
-The very last minute we will be doing the employment verification to give time for my husband to build up compensation history. In a perfect situation we would have 6 months of back pay to show for. This will not be the case for our dossier but we need as much as possible.
-The very last minute we will be doing the residence verification since we are in a month to month rental agreement. When we submit our dossier the date needs to reflect that we are current in our rental lease.
-We have submitted for marriage license again. I bought copies last year since I saw it was needed on the Reece's Rainbow website. However, the date the register stamps on the back of the certificate needs to be within 6 months of the court date- so mine is stamped for February last year, this is too old. I am planning to have the country registrar to mail the marriage certificates to the state secretary so I can get it apostilled at the same time. The state of Nevada is backed up on their apostille requests for 5 weeks, so I will be paying for 24 hour expediting.
-I will be working on the police clearance tomorrow when I have more time in the morning to make the calls. I went to WATCH.com or something similar and already paid $20 for a police clearance, but this is NOT what I needed. I need to make a bunch of calls because I need a written statement on letterhead and not screenshot on a computer with one line saying they couldn't find the correct "James Brown". LOL. Hopefully this won't take too long to get.
-Most of the other documents just require us signing, and notarizing, and more apostilles. The rest is easy compared to the above.
-The bad news is that we missed our biometrics, so I made calls and sent in the original appointment forms in with the boxed checked that we need to reschedule and I included a written explanation of why we couldn't make our appointment. I'm sad it didn't work out!! Hopefully we can get a new appointment soon, the adoption agency doesn't think this should delay things too much, if at all.
You're getting closer - so happy for you!! Makes me wish we were going back, too! Not sure I could convince Mark of that, though - lol!!
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