Our first stop on the document trail when we began our adoption last year was the Longmont Police Department to be fingerprinted for background checks. Yesterday we were back at the Longmont Police Department to be fingerprinted, then on to the credit union to have documents notarized and pick up money orders. It felt like we were starting all over again, but in reality we were gathering all of the documents (pictured above) required to validate our adoption in the United States. I commented to Jim as we left the police department that it is no wonder there are 143 million orphans in the world. If it wasn't so complicated, difficult and expensive, more people would go. Hopefully we are close to being done with the paper chase. We will have court here in the US, then apply for US birth certificates and Social Security numbers.
4 comments:
wow - i didn't realize how much paperwork was required AFTER the adoption was completed! what is all of that for??
and you're right - a lot of people would definitely adopt if they could afford the time & money it takes. it's ridiculous that in many cases, the only thing that stops a child from having a family is money & paperwork. how sad.
- michelle
Kari - noooo way - all of that is waiting for me when I get home? Oh my...I didn't realize all of that needed to be done, yikes! Good thing I only took FMLA instead of taking my vacation time, I guess I'll really need it after all, but for things I don't want to do. :)
I've only started on all that return document stuff but it feels like its all down hill from here. Does any of this stuff have to be apostiled? Ug. That was the worst part for me, well, okay, it was hard to go back to the doc three or four times cause the documents weren't done right! It can't be that bad. (Right?!!)
Kari - I'm impressed! I haven't even started those docs!! I can't find the time to get started!
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