Immigration, Part 1
It's been a while since I've given you an adoption update because, well, moving. Even when you move every couple of years it still completely distracts you from everything else.
So, since it's been a while, let me fill you in on the last couple of months. I present to you a multi-part blog post. Get excited.
1 week before receiving orders to move: The final step for our dossier was immigration approval. We mailed an application, our completed home study, and the fees at the end of August with the assumption that we would be assigned an appointment to be fingerprinted in October. The timing was great because Caleb was gone all of September.
Lo and behold, immigration was moving along quickly and we were assigned a fingerprinting appointment for September.
Yay for immigration!
Boo for us!
Rescheduling was easy and we were given an appointment in October. By this time, we knew that we were moving and the clock was ticking...quickly...to get our approval finalized.
4 weeks until the move: Caleb came home in early October and we were fingerprinted first thing the next morning. As it poured. And flooded. And our car stalled. And school was cancelled. And the river came up our street to say hi to our house. But none of that mattered because we were getting fingerprinted that day. Come hell or...well, you know the rest.
Because we originally had to reschedule, our immigration agent had asked us to email him after we had been fingerprinted so he could pull the records and get our approval letter to us right away.
Sweet. Someone working on my timeline.
I sent the email while we were still in the parking lot. He responded the next day to say the approval had been mailed to us. Plenty of time before the move to receive the approval, get it notarized, mailed to the Secretary of the Commonwealth to be apostilled, receive it back from there, and mail it to our agency.
Plenty of time.
Famous last words...
So, since it's been a while, let me fill you in on the last couple of months. I present to you a multi-part blog post. Get excited.
1 week before receiving orders to move: The final step for our dossier was immigration approval. We mailed an application, our completed home study, and the fees at the end of August with the assumption that we would be assigned an appointment to be fingerprinted in October. The timing was great because Caleb was gone all of September.
Lo and behold, immigration was moving along quickly and we were assigned a fingerprinting appointment for September.
Yay for immigration!
Boo for us!
Rescheduling was easy and we were given an appointment in October. By this time, we knew that we were moving and the clock was ticking...quickly...to get our approval finalized.
4 weeks until the move: Caleb came home in early October and we were fingerprinted first thing the next morning. As it poured. And flooded. And our car stalled. And school was cancelled. And the river came up our street to say hi to our house. But none of that mattered because we were getting fingerprinted that day. Come hell or...well, you know the rest.
Because we originally had to reschedule, our immigration agent had asked us to email him after we had been fingerprinted so he could pull the records and get our approval letter to us right away.
Sweet. Someone working on my timeline.
I sent the email while we were still in the parking lot. He responded the next day to say the approval had been mailed to us. Plenty of time before the move to receive the approval, get it notarized, mailed to the Secretary of the Commonwealth to be apostilled, receive it back from there, and mail it to our agency.
Plenty of time.
Famous last words...
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