At this stage, our Home Study and Dossier have been completed. The dossier is a set of documents which includes your marriage license, birth certificates, medicals, financial statements, etc. etc. Those documents must be notarized and apostilled (state seal) by the Secretary of State. We also have our I-171-H which is issued by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (http://www.uscis.gov/) giving us approval to adopt internationally. That involved submitting paperwork and being fingerprinted at the only USCIS site which is in Charlotte. Our original dossier was submitted in April of 2006 but our agency lost accreditation before it could be registered. Due to the delays in agencies receiving accreditation, our home study has been updated once and our dossier twice. I just finished the last update in December. Our dossier is currently in Russia being translated and authenticated. Once that is complete, our dossier will be registered in two regions and the wait for a referral begins. Stay tuned….
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So, once authenticated... does that mean that you will soon get a referral for a boy that has been on the registry for at least the '9 month' internal waiting period? Or do you get a referral, and then have to wait out the 9 month internal waiting period?
Wow!!! You are doing so well at blogging. Isn't it fun? Your site looks great!! Still praying that good news is around the corner!!
Our son will have already been on the registry for 9 months. At referral he will be between 9 and 18 months of age.
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