Progress on the Paperwork Front
February 5, 2005 we attended a meeting in Lousiville to have the next step in this process revealed to us by Kathy and Nancy. We were surprised that we did not recognize anyone in this group. There were 5 other couples there, none of whom we had met at previous meetings. We discovered that most of these couples started the process last September, we didn't start until December. This was exciting for us, knowing that the timeline that God has set for us to this point has been accelerated above the normal pace. We feel blessed that in every step of the process so far, it seems that we have been able to get it complete in much less time than we expected. For example, our home study visit was done in December when we expected that it would take a couple months from the time we requested the visit to when it occurred; we applied for our passports less than three weeks ago and they have already arrived; we received a reply from the Department of Homeland Security USCIS regarding our Petition for Approval to adopt internationally before the USPS Return Receipt was delivered to us. We pray that this trend continues.
This meeting was to discuss the documents that will be necessary to include in our dossier that will be sent to Ukraine. There are 15 documents required. Some of these documents are very similar to those that were required for the Home Study, but they have to be in a different format specific to how the government in Ukraine wants them. They are very specific in the format and how it is presented. We took a lot of notes and will soon start preparing these documents.
We can only do the intitial preparation though. We must wait to have the docments signed, dated and noterized because the dates on these forms cannot be greater than oe month old when we submit them, and we cannot submit them until we receive approval from the USCIS.
This approval may take a few more weeks. After they receive our completed Home Study report from our Social Worker, they will schedule a time for us to get fingerprinted for FBI clearance. It may take 3 weeks to get the appointment to get fingerprinted, then the process may take 1 month to obtain FBI clearance. After this is complete and received we can proceed with compiling all of our documents for Kathy to review. When she agrees that our dossier is in order we then must go to the Indiana Secretary of State to get the documents apostiled. This is a document that authenticates all of the noterized documents in the dossier.
Timing and accuracy is important in this process. Please pray that God will continue to bless us with an accelertated timeline and that we can remain focussed on being thourough and accurate with all of our documents and government requests.
This meeting was to discuss the documents that will be necessary to include in our dossier that will be sent to Ukraine. There are 15 documents required. Some of these documents are very similar to those that were required for the Home Study, but they have to be in a different format specific to how the government in Ukraine wants them. They are very specific in the format and how it is presented. We took a lot of notes and will soon start preparing these documents.
We can only do the intitial preparation though. We must wait to have the docments signed, dated and noterized because the dates on these forms cannot be greater than oe month old when we submit them, and we cannot submit them until we receive approval from the USCIS.
This approval may take a few more weeks. After they receive our completed Home Study report from our Social Worker, they will schedule a time for us to get fingerprinted for FBI clearance. It may take 3 weeks to get the appointment to get fingerprinted, then the process may take 1 month to obtain FBI clearance. After this is complete and received we can proceed with compiling all of our documents for Kathy to review. When she agrees that our dossier is in order we then must go to the Indiana Secretary of State to get the documents apostiled. This is a document that authenticates all of the noterized documents in the dossier.
Timing and accuracy is important in this process. Please pray that God will continue to bless us with an accelertated timeline and that we can remain focussed on being thourough and accurate with all of our documents and government requests.
If you are interested here is a list of the documents for our dossier:
Petition for Adoption Letter
Letter of Obligation
Medical Statements
Doctor's License
State Police Clearance Documents
Employment Letters
Marriage License
Certification of INS
Home Study
Social Workers License
Passport copies
Power of Attorney
Other notarized blank documents
Petition for adoption
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