Immigration Part 3
Check out Part 1 here and Part 2 here
1 week before the move: Irritated that we don't have our approval letter, but relieved that we finally have a clear answer as to why it's missing, we pack and prepare and say our good-byes. We are going to be cutting it close on completing our paperwork this week, but that's beyond our control at his point.
4 days before the move: Packers (the put-things-in-boxes kind, not the Green Bay kind) at the house all day. Nothing in the mail.
3 days before the move: Immigration approval letter arrives! Hallelujah. Race to UPS for a notary and to overnight to the Secretary of the Commonwealth for apostille.
2 days before the move: Movers load up the truck. They miss a closet full of toys so we make our neighbors happy with a delivery...and we don't tell J & E. The letter of the week reaches the state office and, in an amazing, wonderful, fabulous blessing, is apostilled and mailed back to us the same day!
1 day before the move: We receive the apostilled approval letter. Race to UPS again to mail to our adoption agency, AGCI. Laugh at how the timing worked out.
The day of the move: Move.
Our letter reached our agency a couple of days later, was approved, and mailed to Bulgaria to be translated. We just received confirmation that we were added to the official Ministry of Justice waiting list on November 30!
We have a lot to redo. We have a lot of time to wait. But now we are officially waiting. We spent all summer and fall working to get onto this list and now we are there. We, clearly, don't control the timing or the process but we are here and we are trusting. And we are thrilled with where we are right now.
1 week before the move: Irritated that we don't have our approval letter, but relieved that we finally have a clear answer as to why it's missing, we pack and prepare and say our good-byes. We are going to be cutting it close on completing our paperwork this week, but that's beyond our control at his point.
4 days before the move: Packers (the put-things-in-boxes kind, not the Green Bay kind) at the house all day. Nothing in the mail.
3 days before the move: Immigration approval letter arrives! Hallelujah. Race to UPS for a notary and to overnight to the Secretary of the Commonwealth for apostille.
2 days before the move: Movers load up the truck. They miss a closet full of toys so we make our neighbors happy with a delivery...and we don't tell J & E. The letter of the week reaches the state office and, in an amazing, wonderful, fabulous blessing, is apostilled and mailed back to us the same day!
1 day before the move: We receive the apostilled approval letter. Race to UPS again to mail to our adoption agency, AGCI. Laugh at how the timing worked out.
The day of the move: Move.
Our letter reached our agency a couple of days later, was approved, and mailed to Bulgaria to be translated. We just received confirmation that we were added to the official Ministry of Justice waiting list on November 30!
We have a lot to redo. We have a lot of time to wait. But now we are officially waiting. We spent all summer and fall working to get onto this list and now we are there. We, clearly, don't control the timing or the process but we are here and we are trusting. And we are thrilled with where we are right now.
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