Dossier sent to Social Services

Hi Everyone!
Finally, our dossier has been sent to social services. Not without it's problems, of course.
First, I faxed our Interpol & medical forms to our IP so she can review them & then send the home study to Social services but, as it was " SPRING BREAK" she was not at work for the week. So, it sat there till the next monday. Then, I was told by social services that I needed to meet with my own Notary Public & have our passports, birth certificates & marriage certificate copies notorized. So, thank God we are in the same building as 2 law firms so I called & met with a lawyer who is also a notary public & she did those in 45 mins. (there was 35 pages). It only cost me $35.00. Then,I got a call from social services telling me that one of our forms " Adoption application" needed to be signed in front of a notary public and this needed to be done right away. Sean of course was out of town for the next 3 days, so, I called our Notary public again & made an appointment for that Friday to go meet her with Sean & sign this there. On Friday, we met, it took about 2 minutes & then I walked the document to social services.

On Monday Feb 25, I called our I.P & was told that the home study was sent to S.S that day.

On tuesday Feb 26, I received a call from S.S telling me that we completed the application to adopt wrong. We completed lines 1 & 2 for the age of the child & we should have completed just one. I told her that this is not what I thought as line 1 is your 1st choise & line 2 is in case there is no girl matching line 1. But she said no, line 1 is for 1 child & line 2 is in case you adopt 2 kids. I told her I did not think so as they were both quite clear that no one can adopt more than 1 child at the time so why would there be 2 lines for 2 kids. I called Children'd Bridge & they confirmed what I was saying. I was told we completed it perfectly & not to change anything. I called S.S back & told her that. She was okay with this..... No just wait, you thought that I was done, well, WRONG.....

On that same day, I got a call from my IP in the morning & a call from S.S within minutes of each other that something needed to be changed. I spoke to S.S & the dates we had on our application to adopt did not match the rest of the dossier/home study & our oficial letter which all said that we are looking for a girl as young as possible to the age of 3 1/2 but our application to adopt had 3 yrs old, so I walked to S.S & changed that & luckily, I did not need to have it re-notorized again. Then, Sean & I walked to our IP & the problem was that we had signed the front of the home study & we needed to sign the back. Easy quick fix, it took about 5 mins & a total of 20 mins with the walk there & back.

Now, I was assured that everything looks good & all there is to be done at S.S is to notorize the dossier & forward it to Children's Bridge who in term has it translated.
So, it should take approximately 1- 1 1/2 month so lets say Mid April until our dossier is received in Kazakhstan.

Thank is all for now & lets hope we don't come across more problems & that the proces goes smoothly from this point on.

TTFN

Malory