Okay God, We Get It!!

It seems like everywhere we turn, every single day, we're seeing or hearing something about adoption.  Whether it's on the radio, on the internet, or on the t.v.  It may be a advertisement, or a full article.  It may even be someone mentioning that their sister's best friend's cousin's daughter was adopted.  But it never fails - every day we get reconfirmation from God that we're following His will.  And with as long as this process has been (and so much more waiting still to come), that reassurance has made all the difference in the world.

The I-800A paperwork has been submitted to Immigration and now we're waiting for our biometrics appointment (fingerprinting) to be scheduled. We continue to compile our dossier and only have a few more items left to gather.  Since everything we sign has to be notarized, I am so grateful that my good friend and co-worker, Julie, is a notary.  She has been very helpful and patient with the (seemingly) tons of forms she has had to notarize. Also, since my company's headquarters is in Pennsylvania, and my employment verification letter had to come from the HQ HR, we had to have that letter notarized in PA.  And since the next step in the dossier process is appostilling, we have to get the letter appostilled in PA.  Fortunately, our adoption agency is located in PA and they have agreed to get the letter appostilled there at the same time as some other documents they prepare as part of our dossier.   One additional part of our dossier is a copy of our taxes, which we can't prepare until we receive all of our tax documents in the mail.  We also are waiting for the USCIS approval letter which is also included as part of the dossier.  We're hoping to have the rest of our dossier compiled within the next several weeks at which point we can submit the package for appostilling.  Once that process is complete, we can submit our dossier to the agency, and they will review it, translate it, and submit it to Armenia.  Then the waiting really begins.