After a long wait and one Request For Additional information (apparently they overlooked our birth certificates when they were going through our paperwork the first time),we received our I-797 approval from US Citizenship and Immigration Services today!! That means we have been approved to adopt a child from out of the country!
That is also the last document we needed to complete ALL The documents for our dossier. After the Secretary of State told us we didn't have the correct birth certificate, I ordered the correct birth certificates and had them mailed directly to the Secretary of State. To date, we still don't have confirmation that the Secretary of State received them. We are going through all the hoops right now trying to find out where the birth certificates are.
Matthew will be running around town tomorrow having 797 notarized , then going to the county courthouse to have them sign off on it, and then off to the post office to overnight it to the Secretary of State. Hopefully, our birth certificates will also turn up at the Secretary of State tomorrow. After all the documents get to the Secretary of State, they will have them authenticated and back to us in just a day or two. From there they will be heading to Houston to the Chinese consulate. We should have them back from there in about a week. Then everything will go to CCAI in Atlanta & They will send it off to China in a matter of days!!
We should be matched by no later than Christmas!!
We are getting close now!
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