Dossier with apostilles

This is what a complete dossier with apostilles looks like.  It took just over 4 months to obtain all these documents.  The first set of 10 documents with apostilles has already been sent to EE.

The dossier consists of 41 different documents and each document is notarized and then apostilled by the Secretary of State of Texas.  Here is the SOS building in Austin, our State Capital, where we drove 7 hours and waited a mere 20 minutes while our dossier was apostilled.

We toured the State Capital after we got our dossier apostilled.

 

 After we toured the State Capital, we grabbed a bite to eat and drove the 7 hours back home.  We had a great time on the road trip.  Everyone traveled well and slept VERY well that night!

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Our Dossier is outta here!

 Yesterday at 12:40pm, I took our beloved dossier over to the Fed Ex place and handed it over to a complete stranger.  It was not easy, my voice cracked and I almost cried but I handed over the dossier because I trust that it is in God's hands now.  I snapped a picture of the Fed Ex lady taking our dossier and that was it.  We were done and off to the 
county fair.  Simple as that. 

 

 



















Now we wait for the 41 documents and the 41 apostilles to be translated and be submitted to the EE adoption authorities.  We'll then receive a travel date and go for our first trip.  It is during this first trip that we go accept a formal invitation from EE to adopt the boys.  We'll get to visit the boys and then have court for the formal adoption.  There will be a 10-day wait before everything is final, we will come home during this, and then we can bring the boys home!  This process sounds pretty quick, but it generally takes between 5-6 weeks once you travel.


We are praying we get the boys home by Thanksgiving and the adoption finalized here in the USA by Dec. 31.