Today I said to myself, sit down and get through all of the paperwork that is left to be done. Mostly I have to gather the documents and get the various state seals on them. And I said to myself, read through everything one more time and make sure that you aren't missing anything before you send off these packets of documents. And then I realized that we don't have the Criminal Clearance whatever paperwork even though we were fingerprinted and checked out by the grand state of New Jersey for our Home Study. And I called around and we do have to go to the local police station I believe and get yet another piece of paper. I was just assuming that the fingerprinting for the Home Study covered this, and I was assuming wrongly. Hmmmm.... So perhaps yet ANOTHER fingerprinting session is in our future. It's really hard to believe.
Posted by grrlTravels at September 14, 2004 3:43 PMIsn't it just incredible how many pieces of paper you have to have? Before we sent off the last of our dossier to our agency (with three copies of each document, per their request) I laid it all out and took a picture, just so people would believe me when I told them how much paper it was!
Oh, the letter on my site? We're going through the waiting child program, which works a little differently, and China has to approve you to adopt a waiting child even before you send your dossier over. So that's what that was. That's why we have a picture even before we are DTC.
Posted by: Jen at September 16, 2004 2:06 PM