For any new adopting families that might read this, you will need a lot of patience with the paperwork. I eluded to it in my first post. Now I am looking at this as a "International" adoption and domestic might be different. After we had filled out our questionnaires about ourselves, there was forms about our health, our finances, our backgrounds and our home. Some of these are fairly easy to fill out, but it is very time consuming.
Once we get all of these done (there are other paperwork things like Doctor visits and seeing a shrink; I didn't really talk about), everything has to be Notarized, then approved by the County Clerk that these notarise are still eligible and then it is of to the State Capital for Appostille's; which is the Secretary of State's Notary (thank goodness we live near the Capital). Then all of these have to be copied in triplicate and you cannot remove the staple's. So single page after single page making all of these copies.
Then a copy gets sent to the Adoption service for approval and get a few more forms from them (information that they have to get, i.e. Business License). This then gets mailed off to our USCIS - United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. If your paperwork is all correct they then mail back our approval to adopt this child from another country.
However in our case, there was a couple of applications that were not filled out entirely and a signature was forgotten, we received a letter in the mail to fix these problems. Ughhh! Once that was completed and resent to them, we then received another letter stating to get our fingerprints completed. Ok, we are moving in the right direction now!! We get that done and less than a week later we have been approved and our form was sent to us; December 2009!
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