Now, back to the waiting game. According to our agency, our case will go before the committee in Ecuador on September 8th where we we will receive MF's official assignment. We already signed paperwork back in January to accept her referral, which means that she was taken off all waiting lists, etc. and told the government that we were interested in adopting her and that we would be working on the rest of our paperwork to make it happen. Now, the assignment is what we need to continue the process. The worrier in me asked the agency if there was any way we could not receive her assignment, and she said no. So we will trust in that.
Some people have asked what these things mean that I have referred to, so here are a few visuals.
Dossier: This thing is a beast. This is the compilation of every item imaginable that tells about our family. There is a total of 21 documents in our dossier (each country has their own specifications as to what they want). Among other things it includes an application, copies of our passports, our home study, our birth certficates, our marriage license, pictures of our family and house, reference letters, medical reports, employment verifications, etc. etc. etc. Each of these items had to be notarized.
After being notarized, we took the entire load up to the State Capitol (minus my birth certificate and our marriage license, which we sent to Idaho) to be apostilled.
Apostille: This is an offical state stamp for each document. It verifies that the notary's stamp, or the seal on the birth certificate, or the seal on our background checks is real and that each person signing the seal is authorized to do so. Each and every single one of our 21 documents had to have this apostille stamp. It took about two days for them to be completed (which was really quick actually) and cost $15 a whack. You can see a picture of what it is below.
Aaaaaaand it's such a relief to have all that done.
Praying things move quickly from here!
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