It's Done!

Last Saturday we got our Immigration approval in the mail. Whoohoo!!! So we planned to get all our documents notarized on Monday at John's office and then mail out the docs that needed state certification. Well, Sunday night we started thinking that the Secretary of State office was just up the road in Concord (50 minutes away) and since I had nothing else to do after J got out of school...

So, Monday morning I took J to school; went home and gathered documents + books, crayons, construction paper, and matchbox cars; took E to gymnastics; went to John's office to get everything notarized; picked up J from school; drove to the Capital Building in Concord and got two documents state certified; drove back to Nashua to the Fed Ex/Kinkos and copied everything; then Fed Exed the whole package to the agency.

Today I got online to track our package thinking it would be fun to see where in the midwest it was since I had paid for 2-day delivery (overnight would have run almost $100!!!), and was blown away to see that it was delivered to the agency today!

Now the agency sends the two documents that were state certified to the Ethiopian Consulate in D.C. to be authenticated. While they are out, the agency checks over the rest of our dossier to make sure everything is good to go. They'll notify us if anything needs to be redone. If everything is ok, as soon as the docs come back from being authenticated, they will ship our dossier to Ethiopia. They even give us the tracking number so we can watch it's progress across the globe. :)

Then the Big Wait begins!