We have a submission date!
The SDA will be reviewing our application on Wednesday, April 13, 2011.
Hallelujah.
Today we dropped everything else off at the capitol to be apostilled and had our USCIS fingerprinting done. FYI, the apostilling thing is pricey. We are doing it the "regular" way, which is 3-5 business days. It costs $15/document. The "next business day" price significantly increases to $40/per document. Finally, the "same day service" price is a whopping $65/ document. We already sent a few of our documents to Ukraine and had to do the "next business day" expedited service, but that was only for four documents. This was fine as it was VERY important to have them ready and shipped to Ukraine. Todays little adventure came to a grand total of $270.00. As a side note, Arizona charges $3/document. Hmmm. Tomorrow starts my incessant phone calls to the USCIS to ensure our paperwork is ready in time for us to get it to Ukraine for our date. I was really wanting all of this to happen a lot faster, but I'm feeling fairly patient (especially for me), knowing that Heavenly Father will be sure that things happen how they should and when they should. Also, even though three weeks seems like a long time, I have a feeling we'll be in a little bit of a panic trying to get that USCIS paper.
In my mind a rough time line is as follows:
April 13-SDA submission of application
May 4-(or somewhere close to that time) receive letter from SDA extending an invitation to travel to Ukraine for adoption
May 25-(again, somewhere close to that time) appointment in Ukraine with SDA to get referral to adopt our boys
Woot!!
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