Well, with all of the wonderful news, I guess we were bound to have bad news. When you adopt, you go through so much paper-collection at the beginning... birth certificates, marriage certificates, medical reports, child abuse clearance, police clearance, fingerprinting, etc., etc., etc. We did all sorts of things for both our home study collection and then for our dossier.
Because our adoption wait has been so long, our home study report was outdated. (It only lasts 12 months). Plus, we need them to alter the wording to include Gracelynn's age. We figured it meant a quick little visit and wah-lah! NOPE! The packet arrived in the mail yesterday. We need new police clearances (complete with fingerprinting this time), new child abuse clearances, new medical forms completed for all 5 of us, new financial statement, new letter of employment, new sworn disclosure forms and now 10 hours of international adoption training. I'm at least hoping that the book we had to read and take a test on would qualify for the training! If not, it's another $45 for an online 19 chapter course!
Today I hope to drop off all medical forms and maybe go to the police station for the police clearance and fingerprinting. Mike, having just started at a brand new contract this week, can't get to the station till next week. Reagan's annual physical got boosted up to Monday, too... so hopefully the medical forms will be done by mid-next week. I already completed the application, financial statement and sworn disclosure statements, and filled out paperwork to be notarized for child-abuse clearance. So far, I believe this update will cost about $800. Ugh.
All of this is in addition to a case-worker visit from the home study foundation. Oh... and in addition to the USCIS fingerprinting we'll need to do before we travel. But then, maybe, just maybe there will be an end in sight. :-)
They certainly don't make things easy (or cheap) to adopt overseas.
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What a super bummer!
We are just hitting the "more paperwork" stage too. It was interesting to read and see what you have to do versus what we have to do. Unfortunately (for you), I think you have a bit more paperwork. I read our information once and need to re-read it though and make sure. Fun, fun, fun!
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