Its been a little over a week since my last post, and there's been a lot of adoption activity going on (hence the reason for little time to post). After getting our USCIS approval, the only thing left to do was get a document authenticated by the Secretary of State in Michigan, and then our dossier was ready to send to Washington D.C.. We made the decision to drive to Lansing, Michigan to get it done as quickly as possible. So, after more than (14) hours of drive time, our documents were COMPLETE!
We sent them to our agency for one final review on Tuesday, and just heard back from them last night. The good news is that all of our documents are perfect! However, there's been a little set-back. There has been a staffing change in Ethiopia. The in-country director for our agency retired this week, and his name is on one of our documents. So, we have to recreate a document with the new director's name, resend it to the Indiana Secretary of State for authentication and then we'll be ready to send our complete dossier to U.S. Department of State & the Ethiopian Embassy for final authentication. Its definitely disappointing since we were SO CLOSE, but better that this happened now than after we sent everything to Ethiopia.
We're learning that International Adoption is like a roller-coaster --- full of ups and downs, twists and turns, moments that you just want to throw your hands up and scream (sometimes from fear and others from excitement), and we know that there's most likely another loop right around the corner.....but we also know that this ride will be completely worth it in the end!
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