Notarized & Certified

Today we received our last batch of documents back from the NC Secretary of State. The documents have now been notarized and certified. Tomorrow I'll mail them to the US Department of State, an extra step because we happen to live in this region. Then back to waiting by the mailbox...

U.S. Immigration Approval!

Today we received APPROVAL from Immigration to adopt internationally! Hooray! In the mail was our I800-A Approval from USCIS. This is the last document we need for our dossier (the giant stack of paperwork that gets mailed to China). Now we begin sealing our remaining documents, including the home study report and Immigration approval. First up, mailing to the NC Secretary of State office. We are so close to completing our dossier!
(Ironically, we were approved on June 30, the day of my last post when I couldn't stop thinking about it!)