Dossier complete almost

Well, my agency has 99.9% of my dossier. Apparently, the in country representative wants us to sign an application that is written in Vietnamese. I think I am the first person to do this. My social worker was not exactly sure why they want us to do this. Anyway, I bring that form signed to them tomorrow. Thank goodness I have an appointment in The Woodlands (the area where our agency is). If not it is about an hour drive from my house. After I bring the last page, our dossier is off to Vietnam tomorrow afternoon.:):)

Nursery/Dossier

Here are some pictures from the nursery. We had to include them as part of the dossier. This is just the bones of the room. I will continue to decorate over the next couple of months. I will post updated pics when it is complete.

Paperwork arrived from the VN Consulate and copies have been made. I will hand deliver it to LNI on Monday morning.

Paperwork is on the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just checked my fedex account and the tracking shows ALL of our paperwork from SF is in transit. I should have it by tomorrow afternoon and bring the dossier to LNI Monday. We will soon be done with our part and the real waiting begins.

Last bit of paperwork is in San Fransico

FINALLY! After much drama with the notarized passports and getting to the point of wanting to drive to Austin to pick up the documents. Using Fedex tracking, the last package was delivered to the Vietnam Consulate this morning. I am hoping to have it back by early next week and bring our dossier to the agency. Everything is done and just waiting for the paperwork to come back.

BIG NEWS TODAY

We received our approval from immigration today (I171H)!!!!!!!!!!!! This is huge. I will get it notarized tomorrow and off to Austin tomorrow afternoon. So in theory we could have our dossier turned in for translation by mid-October. That is what I am shooting for.

Wow that was fast!

I did not post this but a week ago Monday I sent about 3/4 of our paperwork to the Vietnamese consulate in San Francisco for authentication. We received it back today.:) So I am now waiting on our form from USCIS (immigration)to send the few remaining documents to Austin and then to SF. We are hoping to submit our dossier in early November. Wish us luck with that b/c our six months for the paperwork is up mid-November.

Fingerprints - check

Today Mitch and I went to INS for our FBI fingerprints. :)