Our trusted I-797 came in the mail last Thursday. What should have been a short, stressless Friday before a long weekend, turned out to be a day of running around. Keith first went to the county to get the notary signature authenticated, then he ran to downtown Atlanta and dropped everything off for me so I could take it to the Secretary of State. I left work a bit early and headed to the Secretary of State and got it done!
Everything was fedexed to the Houston courier for delivery tomorrow. The “perfect world” timeline continues to fly by the skin of it’s teeth. In our “perfect world” the following will happen:
Tues – Delivery to Houston courier. She’ll look everything over and get it ready for the Consulate.
Wed – She will drop our papers off at the Consulate before 11:30 am.
Thurs – She will pick them up around 11:30 am and take them to Fedex to be overnighted to our agency.
Friday – Our agency gets our document by 10:30, adds it to our dossier stack (which is being delivered on Tues morning) and it gets sent to CHINA!!!
So, we’ll see what happens, right? I’m okay with whatever happens, I think. As if I have a choice right??
Below are some pics of our beloved dossier. I know, weird to take pics, but this stack of papers is oh so costly and signifies the end of our first “trimester” for Nathan’s adoption!!
The Great Seal of Georgia. You, too, can own this pretty gold thing for simply $10 a document!
Each document has Nathan Deal, our Governor listed on it but is signed by the Secretary of State. Apparently, Mr. Deal goes by “His Excellency”?? It’s funny because if you read through the document, it makes no sense whatsoever. It really seems like backwards English if you ask me.
The State of Georgia backs all of the papers with blue paper and then staples the top to bind them. Our entire dossier (minus the I-797) went to the Washington, DC Consulate. This meant that our docs had to go to the State Department BEFORE the consulate. The State Dept put another paper on top of here and secured it with a grommet. The Consulate puts a sticker on the back of the State Department paper. No clue what it says.
12 beautiful documents just missing their best friend, the 797!!
I’m really going to do a post on sight words soon… really soon. (I think I’ve been promising that for about a year now. I know you all are DYING for the sight word post so I keep putting it off so you’ll come back and visit… hehehehe… yeah, right!)
Have a great (short) week! LOVE three day weekends!
Becky
7 comments:
So glad that you got everything off!!! Here is to a speedy and smooth journey to your little man!
Nicole
YAY! See, you're "perfect world" is working out, well, perfectly!! Yes - please do the post on sight words! I just ordered 8 fall books from Scholastic (yep - we got those order forms already and I couldn't resist). The books are fall time books with sight words or high frequency words it said. I thought we'd give it a go!!
Everything goes in it's own time. Our boy will be here before you know it. Love you guys.
I'm glad you're meeting the deadlines so far. I hope your perfect world continues to be perfect!
Woohoo!! Isn't having the dossier finished one of the best feelings in the world?!?! Now hoping for a super-quick LID and LOA for you!.
Love the dossier photos, and love the name you picked!! I can NOT believe Georgia charges so much for apostilling a document. (is that a word or even a verb?) Anyway, TN only charges $2 per document. Which is one reason you should move here... oh and the no State Income Tax. That's a good reason too. :-)
So, it's Friday! What's the status???
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