April 12, 2010
I took a stack of papers to get county certified today and will be sending them off to a courier to get them authenticated by NY state and then the Chinese consulate. Normally, we'd wait til closer to the end for this phase, but I am a total worrywart. Some of the Chinese consulates require that the medical documents be less than 6 months old in order to be authenticated... Adam's will hit 6 months on April 22nd. NY currently doesn't have this rule, but the last thing we'd want to do is wait until the end of this paperchase and then find out that NY now won't certify anything older than 6 months... given the wait times at our doctor's office, that would set us back 6 weeks or more to get Adam a new physical. I'm not taking any chances, so off these documents go.
The docs we've sent off are the 2 police clearance reports, 2 medical reports, Adam's birth certificate, and our marriage certificate.
Picked up my employment letter today at work... everything looks good!
We also found out today that our NY and FL child abuse clearances are in... now we're just waiting on CT. Unfortunately, CT tends to be one of the slower states, but hopefully it will be in by the end of the month. These clearances are required for our homestudy to be completed, and our homestudy is required before we can apply with USCIS (immigration) for our I800A - which results (after about 40 days and another round of fingerprints) in a piece of paper called the I-797C which is the final document required for our dossier before it can be sent to China. So right now, these CT clearances are a key part of us being able to bring Jack home as soon as possible... so lets hope they come in sooner rather than later.
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