It NEVER Ends...

… Paperwork that is.

Big Bear received a call from our social work agency this morning. It seems that USC!S needs a few more things from us.

Heaven Help Me!

We have to send a notarized statement stating that we have never filed an I600. WHAT????? Also one of our letters of recommendation was not dated. Our friend must redo the letter with a date. Kidding RIGHT??????

I called our social worker back because I was confused. Then I got a little worried about this. We did file the I600A. It seems that we WILL file an I600 when we travel. There have been cases of people sending in an I600 for an extension for a second adoption on the paperwork from their first adoption. So starting LAST WEEK everyone must send in a notarized paper stating they have not filed an I600.

The fun continues… I’m off to do more paper work.

Ps. I’m a terrible blogger lately, I know. Sixteen school days and I may have a bit more time ~ if I’m not still sending in paper work. ;o)

Mini Sigh of Relief

Finally after four months of anxious emails to our agency and social worker, mid-morning – mid-afternoon – mid-anytime mini panic attacks, and/or waking in the middle of the night worrying about whether or not I would have to complete the I800 because no one could/would give me a definite answer about our paper work I can breathe a tiny sigh of relief. Look what came in the mail yesterday…

The only box checked was the one stating they need a new home study.

This letter is a form stating that we have received a third extension to our I797C. I have been checking the mail daily for the last two weeks. All I can say is what a mini relief. I will feel a complete and total relief once we have our new I-797C in my hot little hands.

In order to get that last piece of paper we still have to submit a home study. For those that know that little piece of the muddle ~ I am happy to report that our social worker will be at our house on Saturday, April 18th at 2:00pm. Hopefully not too long after that she will send in the last piece needed to complete our I797C.

The last time I completed all of this paper work (round 2) I was not nearly as anxious about it as I am this time. I think I knew that I would be doing the paper work for a third time so I had much more of an “ok, whatever” feeling. This time I’m having much more anxiety about the entire thing.

In an email from USC!S I was told that our extension will be valid from April 27, 2009 to October 26, 2010, no matter when all of the information is received. If Polar Cub isn’t home in the next 18 months you won’t find me in blog world any more. You will find me rocking back and forth in a padded room somewhere babbling about I-600As, I-800s, I-171H, I-797Cs, fingerprints, and home studies. No Joke.

36 Done!

3 years...

36 months...

1,095.7266 days...

26,297.4383 hours...

1,577,846.3 minutes...

94,670,777.9 seconds...

Our dossier has been Logged in China

But who's counting??

I stopped counting down months a long time ago, 

but the big milestones I still want to acknowledge. 

This is a big one!

Here We Go Again...

Medical Forms

Letters of Employment

Financial Paperwork

FBI Clearance

Criminal Records Clearance

These are just a few of the documents I have started to gather for our THIRD round of paper work. Don't they say, "Third time is a charm"??? Our current 797C expires on April 26. I have to have all of the paper work finished and a home visit from our new social worker within the next few weeks so that I can mail everything off before our current paper work expires.

I don't know why, but I just can't get into this this time. Round one and two I flew through the paper work trying to get it all finished and back to our social worker as soon as possible. This time, not such a big deal. I know I have a time line, but I'm not getting all flustered about it this time. Am I getting wiser or just burned out?