Yesterday our dossier coordinator told us our dossier looks great (WooHoo- I guess my natural talent is filling out and organizing paperwork) and she gave us the go- ahead to submit it to the Secretary of State for certification. The purpose of the state certification is to verify the authenticity of the document and the notary's seal and signature. We had a total of 16 documents to get certified (at $10 a piece) in three different states. The documents have to get certified in the state they originated, so our birth and marraige certificates have to get sent back to Florida and Maryland. Once everything gets sent back to us all officially certified, we send it off to our agency for translation. I know, this is real exciting stuff.
In other news, we found out today that our home study case worker had a massive stroke. She will not be our case worker anymore. Besides it being sad, this will affect us in two ways. We will be re- assigned a new case worker from Coeur d'Alene, which is farther away than where our old case worker is from. This means that we will have to pay more for mileage when she does our post- adoption visits. Also, she does not know us. The first time she will meet us and see our home is one month after we bring our child home from Congo. I can't imagine a more stressful time to meet a new person who will be evaluating our newly acquired family life. Hopefully she will be kind.
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